The Chisera
(Proudly.) I want no gifts. Keep your bracelet.
Bright Water
(With equal pride.) The Chief's daughter asks no favors.
The Chisera
But if a Chisera choose to confer them? (With sudden feeling.) What question is there between us of Chief's daughter and Chisera? We are two women, and young.
Bright Water
(Uncertainly.) The Chisera is the friend of the gods.
The Chisera
And therefore not the friend of any tribeswoman? (Passionately.) Oh, I am weary of the friendship of the gods! If I have walked in the midnight and heard what the great ones have said, is that any reason I should not know what a man says to a maid in the dusk—or do a kindness to my own kind—or love, and be beloved?