e two friends were glad.
They stopped at an old woman's house, and said to her, "Let us stay
with you for a few days. We are men from another country and do not
know where to go in this place." The old woman said, "You may stay
with me if you like. I live all alone, and there is plenty of room for
you."

After two or three days the kotwal's son said to the old woman, "Has
your Raja a daughter?" "Yes," she answered; "he has a daughter; her
name is Panwpatti Rani." "Can you go to see her?" asked the kotwal's
son. "Yes," she said, "I can go to see her. I was her nurse, and she
drank my milk. It is the Raja who gives me my house, and my food, and
clothes--everything that I have." "Then go and see her," said the
kotwal's son, "and tell her that the prince whom she called to her at
the fair has come."

The old woman went up to the palace, and saw the princess. After they
had talked together for some time, she said to the little Rani, "The
prince you called to you at the fair is come." "Good," she said; "tell
him to come to see me to-night at twelve o'clock. He is not to come in
through the door, but through the window." (This she said because she
did not want her father to know that the prince had come, until she
had made up her mind whether she would marry him.)

The old woman went home and told the kotwal's son what the Princess
Panwpatti said. That night the prince went to see her, and every night
for three or four nights he went to talk with her for an hour. Then
she told her mother she wished to be married, and her mother told her
father. Her father asked whom she wished to marry, and she said, "The
Raja's son who lives in my nurse's house." Her father said she might
marry him if she liked; so the wedding was held. The kotwal's son went
to the wedding, and then returned to the old woman's house; but the
prince lived in the Raja's palace.

Here he stayed for a month, and all that time he never saw his friend.
At last he began to fret for him, and was very unhappy. "What makes
you so sad?" said Panwpatti Rani. "I am sad because I have not seen
my friend for a whole month," answered her husband. "I must go and see
him." "Yes, go and see him," said his wife. The Raja's son went to the
old woman's house, and there he stayed a week, for he was so glad to
see the kotwal's son. Then he returned to his wife. Now she thought he
would only have been away a day, and was very angry at his having
stayed so long from her. "How cou