"Have we your permission, in the meantime, to go and sell in the soldiers' quarters?
We have goods suited to the needs of their wives also, as well as those for the ladies." "Certainly.

You can go about as you please up here.

It is only as to the approaches that we have to be careful.

But wait in your room for a short time.

I will have food sent over to you." In a few minutes a servant brought across a large dish of pillau, and several cakes of sweetmeats, the latter being, as he informed them, the special gift of the governor's wife.