these two conversed, sitting side by side in the heart of Gobind Lâl.
Kumati said, "This was Bhramar's first fault, this unbelief."
Sumati answered, "Why not distrust the unworthy? You were enjoying Rohini's society. Is it so great a fault in Bhramar that she should have suspected it?"
Kumati. "Suppose that I have now become untrustworthy—still, when Bhramar distrusted me, I was innocent."
Sumati. "A day or two sooner or later matters little. I have become guilty. Is it so heavy a fault to distrust a person who is capable of this guilt?"
Kumati. "The fact that Bhramar considered me guilty made me become so. If you call an honest man a thief he becomes one."
Sumati. "Is that the fault of the person who called him a thief? The one that steals, is he not to blame?"
Kumati. "I can't argue with you! Then see how Bhramar affronted me! As soon as she heard I was coming home she went off to her father's house."
Sumati. "What woman is there that would
