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Rh was thinking, "What does that look mean?" and concluded, "This anxious look is a petition."

What petition? What could it be but for deliverance from her trouble? He remembered the conversation they had held on the steps of the tank. He remembered saying, "If you are in any trouble, whether to-day or to-morrow, let me know." Now Rohini was indeed in trouble, and by this sign she was appealing to him. He thought, "My desire is to help you, for I see there is no one in this world likely to do so. But it is not easy to rescue you from the people into whose hands you have fallen." Thus musing, he repeated his question to his uncle, "What has happened, sir?"

Krishna Kanta had already related to his nephew the whole matter, but Gobind Lâl had been so absorbed in interpreting Rohini's glance that he had not heard. At this second question the old man thought, "What has happened? I think the boy is bewitched by the woman's lovely face," and again told the whole story. At the end he said, "This is that good-for-nothing Hara's doing. I imagine this woman has been bribed by him