CHAPTER XXXIX.
KUNDA'S TONGUE IS LOOSENED.
Kunda Nandini was seated on the floor, her head resting against the the bed-post.

At sight of Nagendra the tears came into her eyes.

As he stood beside her, Kunda, like a severed branch of a twining plant, laid her head at his feet.

In a stifled voice he said-- "What is this, Kunda?
for what fault are you leaving me ?" Kunda had not been used to answer her husband, but now, at her last hour, her tongue was loosened.

She said, "For what fault did you leave me ?" Silenced, Nagendra sat beside Kunda with bent head.
She went on: "If on coming home yesterday you had called for me, if you had once come and sat by me in this way, I had not died.