Then Halaaniani climbed up the trunk of a tree and kept watch. When he was up the tree, Malio's trumpet sounded, again it sounded a second time, so on until the fifth time, but Halaaniani did not see the girl turn her eyes or listen to the sound.
Malio waited for Halaaniani to return and tell what he had seen, but as he did not return, Malio again blew on the trumpet five times; still Halaaniani did not see Laielohelohe pay the least attention until she went away altogether.
Halaaniani came back and told his sister, and his sister said, "We have not won her with the trumpet; shall we try my nose flute?"
The two returned home, and very early in the morning, they came again to the same place where they had lain in ambush before.
No sooner were they arrived than Laielohelohe arrived also at her customary station. Malio had already instructed her brother, as follows:
"Take lehua flowers, bind them into a cluster, when you hear me playing the nose flute, then drop the bunch of flowers right over her; maybe she will be curious about this."
Halaaniani climbed the tree right over where Laielohelohe was wont to sit. Just as Malio's nose flute sounded, Halaaniani dropped the bunch of lehua flowers down from the tree, and it fell directly in front of Laielohelohe. Then Laielohelohe turned her eyes right upward, saying, "If you are a man who has sent me this gift and this music of the flute, then you are mine: if you are a woman, then you shall be my intimate friend."
When Halaaniani heard this speech, he waited not a moment to descend and join his sister.
To Malio's question he told her what he had seen.
Said Malio to Halaaniani, "We will go home and early in the morning come here again, then we shall find out her intentions."