CHAPTER IX.
Entering the house, Gobind Lâl told the servants not to let any one go upstairs. The music-teacher had gone to his dwelling. Gobind Lâl took Rohini into the private sleeping chamber and closed the door. Rohini stood trembling before Gobind Lâl like a reed shaking in the current of a stream. Gobind Lâl in a gentle tone said, "Rohini!"
"What is it?"
"What are you to me?"
"Nothing. So long as you retain me at your feet, I am your servant. Otherwise, nothing at all."
"I have placed you at my head, not at my feet. Princely wealth, wealth greater than princely, an unstained character, an unbroken faith, all these I have abandoned for you. What are you, Rohini, that for your sake I should have given up all this
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