Then Kahalaomapuana started up as if she had been asleep and said to her mother, "My mother and ruler, he has gone; only I am in the house; that polluted skirt of yours, here it is."
"Alas! my ruler. I shrink with fear of evil for you, because you have guarded my skirt that was polluted; what recompense is there for the evil I fear for you, my ruler?"
She embraced the girl and wailed out the words in the line above.
When she had ceased wailing, the mother asked, "On what journey do you come hither to us?"
"I come to get my older brother for a husband for our friend, the princess of the great broad land of Hawaii, Laieikawai, our protector when we were lovelessly deserted by our older brother; therefore we are ashamed; we have no way to repay the princess for her protection; and for this reason permit me and my princely brother to go down below and bring Laieikawai up here." These were Kahalaomapuana's words to her mother.
The mother said, "I grant it in recompense for your guarding my polluted garment.
"If anyone else had come to get him, I would not have consented; since you come in person, I will not keep him back.
"Indeed, your brother has said that you are the one he loves best and thinks the most of; so let us go up and see your brother.
"Now you wait here; let me call the bird guardian of you two, who will bear us to the taboo house at the borders of Tahiti."
Then the mother called: