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for three boons. At the end of the dance, when I was presented as a prisoner before the King, she asked one boon and by that she got me freed.
The depth of a woman's action can be known only be women. Man can fathom the depth of an oecan but not the depth of a woman's heart. I have never doubted the fidelity of my wife but that prostitute could know it simply from my telling her about my wife's demand. Now the prostitute wanted to give me direct testimony to what she infered.
One day the memory of my wife began to make me restless. We both went to Ujjayinee and halted in one garden near the City. At midnight, when she was asleep, 1 silently went away and walked towards my house. I hid myself in one corner.
I saw that my wife was engrosssed
