But she only said, "High-feather is a brave man, and he is very good
to me, and I will never leave him."
When they saw they could not make her leave her husband, the eldest
sister said: "If you must stay, you must. But just come up for an
hour, to let your father see you, because he has been mourning for you
ever since you went away."
The Star-wife did not wish to go, but she wanted to see her father
once more, so she got into the basket and it sailed away up into the
sky. Her father was very glad to see her, and she was very glad to
see him, and they talked and they talked till the blue sky was getting
gray. Then she remembered that she ought to have gone home long
before.
"Now I must go back to my husband," she said.
"That you shall never do!" said her father.
And he shut her up in a white cloud and said she should stay there
till she promised never to go back to the prairie. She begged to be
let out, but it was no use.
Then she began to weep; and she wept so much that the cloud began to
weep too, and it was weeping itself quite away. So her father saw she
would go down to the earth in rain if he kept her in the cloud any
longer, and he let her out.
"What must I do for you," he said, "to make you stay with us here and
be happy?"
"I will not stay here," she said, "unless my husband comes and lives
here too.
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