Would it not be well that I should renew acquaintance with your new _grihini_ ?" The burning glance of hate cast on him by Hira at these words, Debendra failed to see in the uncertain light.
Hira said: "How will you get to see her ?" "By your kindness it will be accomplished," said Debendra.
"Then do you remain here on the watch; I will bring her to you." With these words Hira went out of the summer-house.

Proceeding some distance, she stopped beneath the shelter of a tree and gave way to a burst of sobbing: then went on into the house--not to Kunda Nandini, but to the _darwans_ (gatekeepers), to whom she said-- "Come quickly; there is a thief in the garden." Then Dobe, Chobe, Paure, and Teowari, taking thick bamboo sticks in their hands, started off for the flower-garden.

Debendra, hearing from afar the sound of their clumsy, clattering shoes, and seeing their black, napkin-swathed chins, leaped from the summer-house and fled in haste.

Teowari and Co.

ran some distance, but they could not catch him; yet he did not get off scot-free.