CHAPTER XV.
THE FORLORN ONE.
In the depth of night, when all were sleeping, Kunda Nandini opened the door of her chamber and went forth.

With but one dress, the seventeen-year-old girl left the house of Surja Mukhi, and leaped alone into the ocean of the world.

Kunda had never set foot outside the house; she could not tell in which direction to go.
The dark body of the large house loomed against the sky.

Kunda wandered for some time in the dark; then she remembered that a light was usually to be seen from Nagendra's room.

She knew how to reach the spot; and thinking that she would refresh her eyes by seeking that light, she went to that side of the house.