'Is such my answer?' asked the attendant.
'It is,' said Lávanyavati.
Upon the messenger reporting her reply to the Prince, he was in despair.
'The God of the five shafts has hit me,' he exclaimed, 'and only her presence will cure my wound.'
'We must make her husband bring her, then,' said the messenger.
'That can never be,' replied the Prince.
'It can,' replied the messenger—
'Fraud may achieve what force would never try:—
The Jackal killed the Elephant thereby.'
'How was that?' asked the Prince. The Slave related:—