.

." And then, without apparent reason, he began to call for Lakshmi, the beautiful Lakshmi, the wife of his youth.

He ordered preparations for an elephant fight; rambled, talked as though he were but twenty; his eyes dim, his lips loose and pendulent.

And in this condition he might live ten or twenty years.

Ramabai was sore at heart.
They had to wait two days till his mind cleared again.