Laieikawai asked, “Where do you come from?”

“From Kauai,” answered Kahalaomapuana.

“And what is your brother’s name?”

“Aiwohikupua,” replied the girl.

Again Laieikawai asked, “What are the names of each of you?”

Then she told them all.

Then Laieikawai understood that these were the persons who came that first night.

Said Laieikawai, “Your sisters and your brother I know well, if it was really you who came to me that night; but you I did not hear.”

“Yes; we were the ones,” said Kahalaomapuana.

Said Laieikawai, “If you were the ones who came that night, who guided you here?  For the place is unfrequented, not a single person comes here.”

The girl said, “We had a native of the place to guide us, the same man who spoke to you in behalf of Kauakahialii.”  Then it was clear he was a fellow countryman of theirs.

The end of all this talk was that Laieikawai bade her grandmother to prepare a house for the sisters of Aiwohikupua.

Then, through the supernatural power of her grandmother, Waka, the matter was quickly dispatched, the house was made ready.

When the house was prepared Laieikawai gave orders to Kahalaomapuana:  “You return, and to-night come here with all your sisters; when I have seen them then you shall play to us on your merry instrument.”

When Kahalaomapuana rejoined her sisters they asked what she had done—­what kind of interview she had had with the princess.

Answered the girl, “When I reached the door of the palace a hunchback opened the door to receive me, and when I saw the princess resting on the wings of birds, at the sight I trembled with fear and fell down to the earth.  For this reason when I was taken in to talk with the princess I did just what she wished, and she asked about us and I told her everything.  The result is, fortune is ours; she has commanded us all to go to her to-night.”

When they heard this the sisters were joyful.

At the time the princess had directed they left the hollow tree where they had lived as fugitives.

They went and stood at the door of the chief-house.  Laieikawai’s attendant opened the door, and they saw just what their sister had described to them.

But when they actually saw Laieikawai, then they were filled with dread, and all except Kahalaomapuana ran trembling with fear and fell to the ground.

And at the princess’s command the strangers were brought into the presence of the princess, and the princess was pleased with them.

And at this interview with the princess she promised them her protection, as follows: 

“I have heard from your younger sister that you are all of the same parentage and the same blood; therefore I shall treat you all as one blood with me, and we shall protect each other.  Whatever one says, the others shall do.  Whatever trouble comes to one, the others shall share; and for this reason I have asked our grandmother to furnish you a home where you may live virgin like myself, no one taking a husband without the others’ consent.  So shall it be well with us from this time on."[46]