[1] Malay: bother, scrape, fuss.
[2] The Lord.
[3] That will do.
[4] The chignon or knot of hair at the back of the head.
[5] A Javanese dancer or nautch-girl, often old and ugly.
[6] Native clerk.
[7] Oh dear! Poor things!
[CHAPTER XIX]
She wandered round the house, greatly agitated and uncertain what to do. She heard her son Pol, the undergraduate, in his room downstairs, next to the front-door. He was sitting there smoking with some friends; and as she passed she listened to the lads' noisy voices. There was a ring at the door: it was her younger boy, Gus, her favourite; and, glad to hear his merry and youthful chatter, she forgot for a moment the feverish curiosity that consumed her so fiercely.