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O lady! if this be so, my friend here is blameless. If you do not believe me, however, go yourself and look on the surface of the stone.

[''The heroine, with joy and modesty, looking at the hero, draws away her hand''.

I will not release it, until you have seen the object of my passion, drawn on the stone.

[All walk about.

O lady! look. Behold the individual his heart is set on.

O Chaturiká! it is as if my very self were drawn there.

O lady! why do you say, "It is as if myself were drawn there"? So exact is the likeness, that I do not know whether it is a reflection of you cast on the stone, or a drawing.

Girl, I am put to shame by him, showing me drawn in a picture.