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Bhavadev feared that his house might be broken or perhaps there would be no Nagila there. If so, he would find his house without Nagila most distressing. Hence, he wanted to ask those women about her. He would go back to the monastery, if she were not at his house.
Then he asked one of the women about Nagila. But he had inadvertently asked the question of his own Nagila, who said, "Don't you know me?"
He noticed her disarming smile.
Bhavadev left many years ago on a day of spring. It was also spring on his arrival. He immediately said to her, "Well, my darling, I am ever yours."
Then Nagila asked with a smile whether, she looked her former self. But he could not make out the true meaning of her words. Hence, he continued "Well, I have thought of no other woman all these twelve years."
Nagila then felt ashamed. She wondered if she was worthy of his love. But Bhavadev told her, "Let us go home." She then replied, "There is no place which can accommodate both of us."
It was dawn and Bhavadev was absorbed in watching the first rays of the rising sun over the blue mountain.
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He asked her with a misgiving, Is there really no place?" Nagila asked him, "How can we live together? Do
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