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After the death of Tuahu the happy family by the Vaiiti River broke up. Tomi went to live with Faatomo at the other end of the village, Pauoto's wife moved to Hitiaa, and Mama-Reretu bundled up her dresses, and with her Chinese shawl and her gold-framed mirror went to the house of her relative, Toto, who sounded the conch shell on himené nights.
Mama-Reretu seemed to become a stranger. She still smiled when I approached her, and there was always a kindly word for me; but she had suddenly become a very old woman, living in her past, only vaguely aware of life moving about her.