"What, then, will you do, Sihamba?"
"What you do, Swallow, that I shall do, for am I not your slave bought at a great price? I will go home with you and serve you, yes, to my life's end."
"That would please me well enough, Sihamba, but I do not know how it would please my father."
"What pleases you pleases him, Swallow; moreover, I can save my food twice over by curing his cattle and horses in sickness, for in such needs I have skill."
"Well," she said, "come, and when my father returns we will settle how it shall be."