And Tyope would have that testimony in any case, for if Okoya should deny, Okoya's own betrothed might be brought face to face with him as a witness.

Thus she reasoned in much less time than it can be written, and these conclusions overwhelmed her to such a degree that she turned away from her favourite child in bitter passion, with the conviction that her son in whom she had trusted was her destroying angel.

She hid her face from him in anger and grief.
Okoya noticed his mother's feelings.

Her anger was inexplicable to him, unless it meant disappointment in relation to some of her own supposed dark designs.

It made him angrier still, for Say's bitterness against the Koshare was in his opinion only feigned.