"She can have it. Is she hungry?"
"I don't think she is hungry, and she would not take the baby from its mother."
"Is she white all through?"
"White all through," said Blair.
"Have you any more in the big canoe?"
"They are all married—except one."
"I will marry her. How many coco-nuts will you take for her?" and he stared appreciatively at Jean.
"We do not sell our women. You would have to ask her yourself."
And at last they got away without further compromising Aunt Jannet, and very gratefully they went back by the way they had come, with full, yet lightened hearts. For the way, though it had opened before them, and now, to look back upon, seemed neither very difficult nor very dangerous, had been a perilous one, and one where death might have opened at their feet at any moment.
They went in silence with over-full hearts. Blair did not in the slightest delude himself with the idea that he had settled the matter at one stroke. He was quite prepared to find the agreement turn out but a temporary one, but it was a step towards the light to have arrived at any understanding whatever.