Kulsam did not show temper; she said with a smile,
"If I do not, would you, in that case, go away without me?"
Dalani was getting more and more short of her temper, and she indignantly said,
"Do you even wish that?"
"Who can say what Fate has ordained for us?" said Kulsam with affected seriousness.
At this Dalani contracted her eyebrows, and shook her little fist at Kulsam; she, however, reserved the blow for the present. She simply raised her clenched fist as far as that cluster of her curls, which hung over her ear like the hovering bee over a beautiful flower. She then said in a rather disgusting tone,
"Would you tell me the truth—why did Amyatt, on two different days, called you before him?"
Kulsam. I have already told you all about it—he sent for me only to inquire whether you were quite comfortable here. It is his desire, that so long as we shall have to live with him, we may pass our days comfortably. May God so grant it that the English may not leave us!
216
