Emboldened by her good humour, he had ventured to suggest that being rested and having restored Little Bonsa, he would be glad to return with her gifts to his own country.

Next instant he was sorry, for as soon as she understood his meaning she grew almost white with rage.
"What!" she said; "you desire to leave me?
Know, Vernoon, that I will see you dead first and myself also, for then we shall be born again together and can never more be separated." Nor was this all, for she burst into weeping, threw her arms about him, drew him to her, kissed him on the forehead, and then thrust him away, saying: "Curses on the priests' law that makes us wait so long, and curses on that Mungana who will not die and may not be killed.

Well, he shall pay for it and within two months, Vernoon, oh! within two months----" and she stretched out her arms with a gesture of infinite passion, then turned and left him.
"My!" said Jeekie afterwards, for he had watched all this scene open-mouthed, "my! but she mean business.

Mrs.Jeekie never kiss me like that, nor any other female either.

She dead nuts on you, Major.