In return, she threw the few drops that had been spilled on the salver upon the King's robe, or vest.

He pretended to be angry, and asked her, with a frown, how she could dare to besprinkle her sovereign; she replied--"When children play together there is no distinction between the prince and the peasant." The King was charmed with her half-veiled beauty and spirit, and he paid a second visit the next day, and again asked for water.

He did the same as the first day, and she returned the compliment in the same way.

He came a third time and asked for water, but Mulika Zumanee had become alarmed, and it was presented by another and less dangerous person.

A few days after, however, the Queen was constrained to allow her fair attendant to attend the King, and receive from him formal proposals of marriage, which she accepted.
She was handsome and generous; but there was no discrimination in her bounty, and she is said to have received from the King nearly two millions of money out of the reserved treasury for pin-money alone.
Of this she saved forty-four lacs of rupees.