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you a woman I would have shown you the besom. As you are a man—go in honour."
Hara Lâl felt he had got his deserts. Dismissed—in honour—he went out with an embarrassed laugh. Rohini also felt that each had been served aright. Tightening the knot of her hair, which in her anger had become loosened, she resumed her cooking, tears starting to her eyes.
