The impatient spouses had therefore to wait a little longer.

Some of them, however, eloped with other men; the wife of Mantlanyane, for instance, ran off and left his little boy among strangers.

Mantlanyane was very angry when he heard of it, not that he cared much about her deserting him, for he had two other wives at Tette, but he was indignant at her abandoning his boy..