; 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]

To these conditions the stranger girls agreed; the younger sister
answered the princess for them all:

"O princess, we are happy that you receive us; happy, too, that you take
us to be your sisters as you have said; and so we obey. Only one thing
we ask of you: All of us sisters have been set apart by our parents to
take no delight in men; and it is their wish that we remain virgin
until the end of our days; and so we, your servants, beseech you not to
defile us with any man, according to the princess's pleasure, but to
allow us to live virgin according to our parents' vow."

And this request of the strangers seemed good to the princess.

After talking with the princess concerning all these things, they were
dismissed to the house prepared for them.

As soon as the girls went to live in the house they consulted how they
should obey the princess's commands, and they appointed their younger
sister to speak to the princess about what they had agreed upon.

One afternoon, just as the princess woke from sleep, came Kahalaomapuana
to amuse the princess by playing on the trumpet until the princess
wished it no longer.

Then she told Laieikawai what the sisters had agreed upon and said, "O
princess, we have consulted together how to protect you, and all five of
us have agreed to become the bodyguard for your house; ours shall be the
consent, ours the refusal. If anyone wishes to see you, be he a man, or
maybe a woman, or even a chief, he shall not see you without our
approval. Therefore I pray the princess to consent to what we have
agreed."

Said Laieikawai, "I consent to your agreement, and yours shall be the
guardianship over all the land of Paliuli."

Now the girls' main purpose in becoming guardians of Paliuli was, if
Aiwohikupua should again enter Paliuli, to have power to bar their
enemy.

Thus they dwelt in Paliuli, and while they dwelt there never did they
weary of life. Never did they even see the person who prepared them
food, nor the food itself, save when, at mealtimes, the birds brought
them food and cleared a