Husband.—Really and truly?
Wife.—Really and truly.
Husband.—Oh! that is indeed too delightful! But I have something to tell you: know then, that if a woman so much as peep through a chink, to say nothing of her coming into the actual room where the devotee is sitting, the spell of the devotion is instantly broken. So be sure not to come to where I am.
Wife.—All right. I will not come to you. So perform away.
Husband.—Well, then, we will meet again after it shall have been happily accomplished.
Wife.—I shall have the pleasure of seeing you when it is over.
Husband and Wife.—Good-by! good-by! [She moves away.
Husband.—I say!
Wife.—What is it?
Husband.—As I mentioned before, mind you don't come to me. We have the Buddhist's warning words: "When there is a row in the kitchen, to be rapt in abstraction is an impossibility."[173] So whatever you do, do not come to me.