“Very well, Saïdjah, I will gladly marry you when you return. I will spin and weave sarongs[17] and slendangs,[18] and be very diligent all the time.”
“Oh, I believe you, Adinda, but … if I find you married?”
“Saïdjah, you know very well that I shall marry nobody but you; my father promised me to your father.”
“And you yourself?”
“I shall marry you, you may be sure of that.”
“When I come back, I will call from afar off.”
“Who shall hear it, if we are stamping rice in the village?”
“That is true, … but, Adinda, … oh yes, this is better, wait for me under the djati[19] wood, under the ketapan[20] where you gave me the melatti.”[21]
“But, Saïdjah, how can I know when I am to go to the ketapan?” [[329]]
Saïdjah considered and said:—