Be kind to both and be silent." She stepped into the court-yard, and Say Koitza remained standing in the doorway.
The rain had ceased; the sky was clear again, all ablaze with the richest golden hues over the crest of the big houses.

It was near sunset.

Say watched her friend as she went to the entrance; and as Shotaye's form vanished in the dark passage Okoya emerged from it, coming toward his mother, slowly, shyly, but with a smile on his countenance.

That was surely a good omen, and she anticipated the timid "guatzena" with which he was about to greet her by a warm and pleasant "raua opona.".