“Oh, I do not deny my vampiresses have mishandled the affair,” said Mak Genggang. “They feared I should tell them to go to their relations if they confessed to any. Absurd creatures! As if I did not know one might disagree with one’s relations, and wish to live apart from them! They are my women, however. I am bound to defend them, however stupid they are. Any offence to them must be furiously resented!”
