this house and killed like a dog would not suit me at all."
So Rupo had to go to Rohini and repeat to her Nishâkar's words. What now were Rohini's emotions I am quite unable to tell. If I cannot understand my own mind how can I possibly say, "Thus and thus thought Rohini?" That she loved Brahmânanda so fondly that to obtain news of him she lost all power of discrimination, I am unable to say. I think there was something more in it. There had been a little exchange of glances, some divining of one another's thoughts. Rohini had observed that Nishâkar was a handsome man with fine eyes. That in manliness Nishâkar was a prince among men. Rohini was firmly resolved never to be unfaithful to Gobind Lâl, but then unfaithfulness was one thing, this quite another, I fancy this sinful woman thought.
If a huntsman should see a deer carelessly straying, would he not certainly shoot an arrow at it? What woman seeing a vulnerable man would not strive to make a conquest? The tiger slays the ox, but he does not consume the whole carcase. A woman defeats a man only that she may
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