Enter Raychurn and the Physician.
Physician. How is she now? Did you give her that medicine?
Sadhu. The medicine did not act, and whatever went down immediately came up by a vomit. See her pulse once more now; I think, it is a sign of her end.
Reboti. She is crying out, thorns, thorns. I have prepared her bed so thickly,[1] still she is tossing about. Now save her by a good medicine. Dear Sir, this relative is very dear unto me.
Sadhu. We don't see any sign of the pulse.
Physician. (Taking hold of the hand). In this state, it is good for the pulse to be weak. "Weakness makes the pulse strong; to have a strong pulse is fatal."
Sadhu. At this time, it is the same thing either to apply or not to apply the medicine. The parents have hope to the very end; therefore, see, if there be any means.
Physician. The water with which the Atapa (dried rice) is washed, is now necessary. The application of the Shuchikavaran (a medicine) is required.
Sadhu. That Atapa which the Barah Ranee sent for offerings of prayer is in the other room. Raychurn, bring that here.
(Exit Raychurn.)
Reboti. Is Annapurnah[2] now awake, that she shall with the rice in her hands come to me my Khetromani? It is through my ill-fate that our mistress is become mad.
Physician. She is already full of sorrow for the death of her husband; again, her son is on the point of death; her
