CHAPTER XXIX.
"What fault have I committed that I should be abandoned?"
These words Bhramar had been unable to utter to Gobind Lâl; but now, moment by moment, she asked herself, "What is my fault?"
Gobind Lâl also asked himself what was Bhramar's fault. He was in a manner convinced that she had committed a very heinous offence, but what it was, even after so much thought, he could not see. It arose in his mind that Bhramar's want of faith in him, and her writing that very hard letter at once, without inquiry into the truth or falsity of the report, constituted her offence. "That she for whom I do so much, that she should so easily distrust me—this is her fault." I have formerly spoken of the two spirits, Kumati and Sumati. I will now relate how
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