It is against the Rule to sit on a bench,' said the lama.

'Moreover, it cramps me.' 'I say,' began the money-lender, pursing his lips, 'that there is not one rule of right living which these te-rains do not cause us to break.
We sit, for example, side by side with all castes and peoples.' 'Yea, and with most outrageously shameless ones,' said the wife, scowling at the Amritzar girl making eyes at the young sepoy.
'I said we might have gone by cart along the road,' said the husband, 'and thus have saved some money.' 'Yes--and spent twice over what we saved on food by the way.

That was talked out ten thousand times.' 'Ay, by ten thousand tongues,' grunted he.
'The Gods help us poor women if we may not speak.

Oho! He is of that sort which may not look at or reply to a woman.' For the lama, constrained by his Rule, took not the faintest notice of her.

'And his disciple is like him ?' 'Nay, mother,' said Kim most promptly.