nto
the courtyard and lighted the candle again. [_Exit._

_Sansthanaka._ Mashter! mashter! I'm looking for Vasantasena.

_Courtier._ Keep on looking, keep on looking!

_Sansthanaka._ [_Does so._] Mashter! mashter! I've caught her! I've
caught her!

_Courtier._ Idiot, you've caught me.

_Sansthanaka._ You shtand right here, mashter, and shtay where
you're put. [_He renews the search and seizes the servant._] Mashter!
mashter! I've caught her! I've caught her!

P. 31.3]

_Servant._ Master, you've caught me, your servant.

_Sansthanaka._ Mashter here, shervant here! Mashter, shervant;
shervant, mashter. Now shtay where you're put, both of you. [_He
renews the search and seizes Radanika by the hair._] Mashter! mashter!
Thish time I've caught her! I've caught Vasantasena!

Through the black night she fled, fled she;
Her garland's shmell betrayed her;
Like Chanakya caught Draupadi,
I caught her hair and shtayed her. 39

_Courtier._

Ah, proud to be so young, so fair!
Too high thy love must not aspire;
For now thy blossom-fragrant hair,
That merits richest gems and rare,
Serves but to drag thee through the mire. 40

_Sansth._

I've got your head, girl, got it tight,
By the hair, the locks, and the curls, too.
Now shcream, shqueak, shqueal with all your might
"Shiva! Ishvara! Shankara! Shambhu!"[37] 41

_Radanika._ [_In terror._] Oh, sirs, what does this mean?

_Courtier._ You jackass! It's another voice.

_Sansthanaka._ Mashter, the wench has changed her voice, the way a
cat changes her voice, when she wants shome cream of curdled milk.

_Courtier._ Changed her voice? Strange! Yet why so strange?

She trod the stage; she learned the arts;
She studied to deceive our hearts;
And now she practises her parts. 42

[_Enter Maitreya._]

_Maitreya._ Look! In the gentle evening breeze the flame of the
candle is fluttering like the heart of a goat that goes to the altar.

[_He approaches and discovers Radanika._] Mistress Radanika!

[17.17. S.

_Sansthanaka._ Mashter, mashter! A man! a man!

_Maitreya._ This is right, this is perfectly right, that strangers should
force their way into the house, just because Charudatta is poor.

_Radanika._ Oh, Maitreya, see how they insult me.

_Maitreya._ What! insult you? No, they ar