"Because if I remain here I shall live as your dependent."
"But what harm is there in that? I am your dependent."
"My dependent, Bhramar, should have stationed herself at the window looking out for my return from travel, she should not then have gone to stay at her father's house."
"But how often have I not sought pardon for that? Cannot this one offence be forgiven?"
"Nowadays there will be a hundred such offences. You are now possessor of the property."
"Not so. This time that I went home, see what I arranged by my father's assistance;" and Bhramar showed a paper, bidding her husband read it.
Taking it in his hand, Gobind Lâl found it to be a deed of gift on duly stamped paper, by which Bhramar had given her whole possessions to her husband. It had been duly registered. After reading it Gobind Lâl said—
"You have acted becomingly in drawing up this, but what relationship is there be-
