How charmingly your friendship is in keeping with the equality of your ages and appearance!
PRIYAMVADÁ. [Aside to ANASÚYÁ.
Who can this person be, whose lively yet dignified manner, and polite conversation, bespeak him a man of high rank?
ANASÚYÁ.
I, too, my dear, am very curious to know. I will ask him myself.
[Aloud]
Your kind words, noble Sir, fill me with confidence, and prompt me to inquire of what regal family our noble guest is the ornament? what country is now mourning his absence? and what induced a person so delicately nurtured to expose himself to the fatigue of visiting this grove of penance?
[S']AKOONTALÁ. [Aside.
Be not troubled, O my heart, Anasúyá is giving utterance to thy thoughts.
KING. [Aside.