Note 212 — 26

There was a man named Asbinan who was the son of Ayo, but the old woman Alokotán took care of him. “Ala, my grandmother Alokotán, go and engage me to Dawīnīsan who looks like the sunshine, for I want to marry her,” said the young boy Asbinan. The old woman replied, “I do not think they will like you, for she is a young girl who never goes outdoors.”212 “Ala, grandmother, you go anyway, and if they do not like me I will see what I shall do,” said Asbinan who was a handsome young man. Not long after the old woman went. As soon as she arrived at the stairs of the house of the mother and father of Dawīnīsan, they said, “Good morning,” and the mother of Dawīnīsan said, “Good morning, what did you come here for, Ayo and Alokotán of Kadalayapan?” “‘What did you come here for?’ you say. Our son Asbinan wants to marry Dawīnīsan,” said Ayo. She called them up into the house and they talked. “We will ask our daughter and hear what she says.” When they asked Dawīnīsan if she wished to Page 165marry Asbinan, she said, “Oh, my mother, I am ashamed to marry yet, I do not know how to do anything; so I do not wish to be married now. Do not dislike me, but be patient with me.” So her mother said, “Pretty Ayo, I think you heard what she said. Be patient.”