CHAPTER V
she laughs.
myatt returned to the Budgrow, and said to Golston, "This woman was weeping by the river-side, alone. She does not understand me nor do I her. You better enquire what is the matter with her."
Golston, after all, was almost as clever in Hindi as Amyatt; but among his own fellows, he was suffered to pass for an expert. He asked the woman,
"Who are you?"
Shaibalini made no answer. She continued to weep.
Golston. "Why are you weeping?"
Yet Shaibalini gave no reply, and wept on.
Golston. "Where do you live?"
Shaibalini kept on as before.
Golston. "What has brought you here?"
Shaibalini remained silent, weeping as before.
Golston was at his wit's end. The Englishmen got no answer from Shaibalini, and asked her to go away. Shaibalini, however, did not seem to
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