‘I have good cause to be so, but must eat my vexation for the present. Go! you have your dismissal.’ He mused for a while after the Moonshee had left him, and then called to Madar, who waited without.
‘Have you discovered anything more about the Khan’s wife, Madar?’ he asked.
‘Nothing, my lord, except that she is very beautiful.’
‘That you said before: nothing between her and the Patél?’
‘Nothing, except that he had seen her.’
‘That too you told me: does he see her now?’
‘Willa Alum!’[[28]] was the reply.
[28]. God knows.