‘Yes, I see now, my Baba,[3] I was mistaken—but trial tests a person.’
‘Mashi!’
‘Do try to sleep, dear!’
‘Let me think a little, let me talk. Don't be vexed, Mashi!’
‘Very well.’
‘Once, when I used to think I could not win Mani's heart, I bore it silently. But you——’
‘No, dear, I won't allow you to say that; I also bore it.’
‘Our minds, you know, are not clods of earth which you can possess by merely picking up. I felt that Mani did not know her own mind, and that one day at some great shock——’
‘Yes, Jotin, you are right.’
‘Therefore I never took much notice of her waywardness.’