They were, however, assured that he lingered in the city and was sinisterly alive.
Day after day the king grew stronger mentally and physically.

Many of the reforms suggested by Ramabai were put into force.

Quiet at length really settled down upon the city.

They began to believe that Umballa had fled the city, and vigilance correspondingly relaxed.
The king had a private chamber, the window of which overlooked the garden of brides.

There, with his sherbets and water pipe he resumed his old habit of inditing verse in pure Persian, for he was a scholar.
He never entered the zenana or harem; but occasionally he sent for some of the women to play and dance before him.