Malio waited for Halaaniani to return and tell what he had seen, but as
he did not return, Malio again blew on the trumpet five times; still
Halaaniani did not see Laielohelohe pay the least attention until she
went away altogether.
Halaaniani came back and told his sister, and his sister said, "We have
not won her with the trumpet; shall we try my nose flute?"
The two returned home, and very early in the morning, they came again to
the same place where they had lain in ambush before.
No sooner were they arrived than Laielohelohe arrived also at her
customary station. Malio had already instructed her brother, as
follows:
"Take _lehua_ flowers, bind them into a cluster, when you hear me
playing the nose flute, then drop the bunch of flowers right over her;
maybe she will be curious about this."
Halaaniani climbed the tree right over where Laielohelohe was wont to
sit. Just as Malio's nose flute sounded, Halaaniani dropped the bunch of
_lehua_ flowers down from the tree, and it fell directly in front of
Laielohelohe. Then Laielohelohe turned her eyes right upward, saying,
"If you are a man who has sent me this gift and this music of the flute,
then you are mine: if you are a woman, then you shall be my intimate
friend.
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