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154 K. Very well; to-day I recognised that plant, and I know the jungle in which it grows. You will not have to go to-day; I will go alone and bring the drug.

Sha. What has happened is past. Don't go out any more at night.

K. Why are you anxious on that account? You have heard that it has been my practice from a child to roam about at night. Just consider that, if such had not been my practice, I should never have seen you.

Sha. It was not from that fear I spoke; but is it proper for respectable young girls to wander about in the forest at night? I was severely blamed, even when we went together; and if you go alone, you will get into a terrible row.

K. Where's the harm? Do you, too, think that I shall become a bad character, because I go out of the house at night?

Sha. I don't think that; but evil people will say evil things.

K. Let them; that doesn't make me bad.