Note 213 — 26

Not long after Ayo and Alokotán went back to Kadalayapan. When they arrived there, Asbinan asked them the result of their mission. “Did they wish me to marry their daughter Dawīnīsan?” His mother replied, “They said that Dawīn-isan does not wish to be married yet; so we came back home.” When he knew that they did not wish him for a son-in-law, for they did not give any reason, he thought and he said, “My mother, hand me my golden cup, for I am going away.” So his mother gave it to him. As soon as he arrived in the yard of Dawīnīsan, he said, “Good morning, Dawīnīsan, will you look out of the window at me?” Dawīnīsan said to the alan, who had spreading toes and who bent double when they walked,213 “Look out of the window and see who it is.” The alan said to her, “He wants you to look at him.” Dawīnīsan said, “I cannot go to the window to look at him, for the sunshine is hot. I do not wish the sun to shine in my face.” When Asbinan could not get her to go to the window, he used magic and went inside of the golden cup, and he pretended that he was ill in his stomach. He said, “Ana, mother, I am going to die, for my stomach suffers greatly,” and he said to the alan, “Ala, you alan, tell her that she must look out of the window to see me.” The alan said to Dawīnīsan, “Come and look at him; he wants you to see him. He says that his stomach is ill.” But Dawīnīsan said to the alan, “Tell him that I cannot go and look at him, I am ashamed. You look at him and then you rub his stomach.” The alan told Asbinan that Dawīnīsan would not look at him, and he would not let the alan rub his stomach. He said, “If Dawīnīsan does not want to look at me from the window, and if I die it is her fault, for I came here because of her.”