Now begone, taking or leaving it, and let me rest.

If your mind is troubled, throw aside that medicine, and go soothe it with such sights as you saw last night." On hearing this the woman sprang up, hid away the poison in her hair, and taking her basket of fruit, passed from the kraal as secretly as she had entered it.
"Why did you give her death-medicine ?" asked Noma of Hokosa, as he stood staring after her.

"Have you a hate to satisfy against the husband or the girl who is her rival ?" "None," he answered, "for they have never crossed my path.

Oh, foolish woman! cannot you read my plan ?" "Not altogether, Husband." "Listen then: this woman will give to her sister a medicine of which in the end she must die.

She may be discovered or she may not, but it is certain that she will be suspected, seeing that the bitterness of the quarrel between them is known.