What more could she say?
But Nagendra, not understanding this, said: "Surja Mukhi always loved me.

Why hang pearls on a monkey's neck?
an iron chain were better." At this Kunda Nandini could not restrain her tears.

Slowly rising, she went out of the room.

There was no one now to whom she could look for sympathy.

Kunda had not sought Kamal Mani since her arrival.