[They regard each other attentively.]
Sobeide.
It is long since
We saw each other.
Gülistane.
What com'st thou here
To do?
Sobeide.
Then thou liv'st here?—I come to question Ganem
(Faltering.)
About a matter—on which much depends—
Both for my father—
Gülistane.
Hast not seen him lately?
Ganem, I mean.
Sobeide.
Nay, 'tis almost a year.
Since Kamkar died, thy husband, 'tis four years.
I know the day he died. How long hast thou
Lived here?
Gülistane.
They are my kin. What is't to thee,
How long? But then, what odds? Why then, three years.
[Sobeide is silent.]