Also it is foolishness to say that one man can send a dream to another." "Then your messenger lied, Zikali, especially as she added that she brought it." "Of course she lied, Macumazahn.

Is she not my pupil whom I have trained from a child?
Moreover, she lied well, it would seem, who guessed what sort of a dream you would have when you thought of turning your steps to Zululand." "Why do you play at sticks (i.e., fence) with me, Zikali, seeing that neither of us are children ?" "O Macumazahn, that is where you are mistaken, seeing that both of us, old though we be and cunning though we think ourselves, are nothing but babes in the arms of Fate.

Well, well, I will tell you the truth, since it would be foolish to try to throw dust into such eyes as yours.

I knew that you were down in Sekukuni's country and I was watching you--through my spies.

You have been nowhere during all these years that I was not watching you--through my spies.