“Handsomely,” he asserted almost pleadingly. “Handsomely,” she agreed. “I replaced more than double the quantity with what you paid me, so that at the next _luau_ I catered one hundred and twenty plates without having to rent or borrow a dish or glass. Lord Mainweather gave that _luau_—you remember him.” “I was pig-sticking with him at Mana,” the other nodded. “We were at a two weeks’ house-party there. But say, Alice, as you know, I think this religion stuff is all right and better than all right. But don’t let it carry you off your feet. And don’t get to telling your soul on me. What would my daughters think of that broken glassware!” “I always did have an _aloha_” (warm regard) “for you, Alice,” a member of the Senate, fat and bald-headed, assured her. And another, a lawyer and a grandfather: “We were always friends, Alice. And remember, any legal advice or handling of business you may require, I’ll do for you gladly, and without fees, for the sake of our old-time friendship.” Came a banker to her late Christmas Eve, with formidable, legal-looking envelopes in his hand which he presented to her. “Quite by chance,” he explained, “when my people were looking up land-records in Iapio Valley, I found a mortgage of two thousand on your holdings there—that rice land leased to Ah Chin. And my mind drifted back to the past when we were all young together, and wild—a bit wild, to be sure. And my heart warmed with the memory of you, and, so, just as an _aloha_, here’s the whole thing cleared off for you.” Nor was Alice forgotten by her own people. Her house became a Mecca for native men and women, usually performing pilgrimage privily after darkness fell, with presents always in their hands—squid fresh from the reef, _opihis_ and _limu_, baskets of alligator pears, roasting corn of the earliest from windward Cahu, mangoes and star-apples, taro pink and royal of the finest selection, sucking pigs, banana _poi_, breadfruit, and crabs caught the very day from Pearl Harbour. Mary Mendana, wife of the Portuguese Consul, remembered her with a five-dollar box of candy and a mandarin coat that would have fetched three-quarters of a hundred dollars at a fire sale. And Elvira Miyahara Makaena Yin Wap, the wife of Yin Wap the wealthy Chinese importer, brought personally to Alice two entire bolts of _piña_ cloth from the Philippines and a dozen pairs of silk stockings.