So the woman went down and said, "The Khoja has not come home, gentlemen."
"What are you talking about?" cried the students; "he came home with us."
"He's not at home, I tell you," said the Khoja's wife.
"We know that he is," said the students.
"He's not," repeated the woman.
"He is," reiterated the students.
And so they contradicted each other and bandied words, till the Khoja, who was listening from above, put his head out of the window and cried, "Neither you nor my wife have any sense in your heads. Don't you see there are two doors to the place? If he did come in by one he may have gone out again through the other."
Tale 39.—The Khoja and His Guest.