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92 has understood that the girl with the complexion of moonlight was Kopal-Kundala; and I will inform him that the dark one was her husband's sister, Shamasoondri.

Shamasoondri sometimes called her brother's wife "Bo," and sometimes affectionately "Bon," and sometimes "Mrino." The name of Kopal-Kundala being terribly long, the family had nicknamed her "Mrinomoi;" hence the title "Mrino." We too shall sometimes call her Mrinomoi.

Shamasoondri was repeating a bit of poetry she had learnt as a child. She said, "Will you alone remain a devotee?"

Mrinomoi replied, "Why, am I doing any penance?"

Shamasoondri, lifting Mrinomoi's waves of hair with her hands, said, "Aren't you going to do up your masses of hair?"