But to you Surja Mukhi gave her all; therefore you are committing the worst of thefts.

Nagendra, it were better for you to die.

If you have the courage, drown yourself.
Shame! shame! Kunda Nandini; why do you tremble at the touch of a thief?
Why are the words of a thief as a thorn in the flesh?
See, Kunda Nandini! the water is pure, cool, pleasant; will you plunge into it?
will you not die?
Kunda Nandini did not wish to die.
The robber said: "Kunda, will you go to-morrow to Calcutta?
Do you go willingly ?" Willingly--alas! alas! Kunda wiped her eyes, but did not speak.
"Kunda, why do you weep?
Listen.

With much difficulty I have endured so long; I cannot bear it longer.

I cannot say how I have lived through it.