I know one or two of them myself whom I will mention to Saduko--or rather to Nandie.

Really, as things were, I am not sure but that he is well rid of her." "But what do you think of the matter as her father ?" I asked, for I wanted to see to what length his accommodating morality would stretch.
"As her father--well, of course, Macumazahn, as her father I am sorry, because it will mean talk, will it not, as the Masapo business did?
Still, there is this to be said for Mameena," he added, with a brightening face, "she always runs away up the tree, not down.

When she got rid of Masapo--I mean when Masapo was killed for his witchcraft--she married Saduko, who was a bigger man--Saduko, whom she would not marry when Masapo was the bigger man.

And now, when she has got rid of Saduko, she enters the hut of Umbelazi, who will one day be King of the Zulus, the biggest man in all the world, which means that she will be the biggest woman, for remember, Macumazahn, she will walk round and round that great Umbelazi till whatever way he looks he will see her and no one else.

Oh, she will grow great, and carry up her poor old father in the blanket on her back.