said, "Nothing is impossible to me for the sake of my life's preserver. She shall remain with me as my wife."
Adhi. Good; but when your kinsmen and relatives ask you whose wife she is, what will you say? Nobokumar again thought, and said, "Do you tell me all about her, and I will tell them that."
Adhi. Good; but, on the other hand, how can a young man and a young woman go alone together? What will people say? How will you explain the matter to your kinsfolk and relatives? And I, who call this girl mother, how am I to send her alone to a distant country with a young man of whose character I know nothing?"
The king of ghataks[1] was not a bad hand in his profession.
Nobokumar said, "Come with us."
Adhi. I go with you! Then who will perform the worship of Bhobani?
- ↑ A ghatak is a sort of marriage-monger or broker, who arranges marriages, and gets a fee from both sides. He is supposed to know the history and genealogy of different families.
