Amin. Now, Sadhu, if you want to come in a proper manner, come with me to the Factory.
Reboti. Oh Amin! have you no wife nor children? Have you kept only the plough and this beating (marpit)? He (i.e. Ray) had just laid down the plough, and all this beating! Did he not want to drink a little water? Oh God! he is a growing lad. By this time he ought to take a second meal. How can he then, without taking any food, go to the Saheb's house which is at such a distance? I ask for the Saheb's grace; just let him have some food; and then take him away. Oh! he is so very much troubled for his wife and the children. Oh! he is shedding tears, his face is become dry. What are you doing? To what a burnt-up land am I come? Destruction has come upon me both in life and money. Oh! Oh! Oh! I am gone both in life and money. (Weeps)
Amin. Oh, stupid woman! Now stop your grunting. If you want to give water, bring it soon; else I shall take him away.
THIRD SCENE
The Factory of Begunbari. The Verandah of the large Bungalow
Enter J. J. Wood and Gopi Churn Das, the Dewan
Gopi. What fault have I done, my Lord? You are observing me day by day. I begin to move about early in the morning and return home at three o'clock in the afternoon. Again, immediately after taking dinner, I sit down to look over papers about Indigo advances; and that takes my time to twelve and sometimes to one o'clock in the night.
Wood. You, rascal, are very inexperienced. There are no advances made in Svaropur, Shamanagar, and Santighata
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