the lessons I have learnt. But they will keep for my next birth. I shall show then what a man is able to do. I have learnt how false it is always to be looking after oneself."
"Whatever you may say, darling, you have never grasped anything for yourself, but given everything to others."
"Mashi, I can boast of one thing at any rate. I have never been a tyrant in my happiness, or tried to enforce my claims by violence. Because lies could not content me, I have had to wait long. Perhaps truth will be kind to me at last.—Who is that, Mashi; who is that?"
"Where? There's no one there, Jotin!"
"Mashi, just go and see in the other room. I thought I"
"No, dear! I don't see anybody."
"But it seemed quite clear to me that"
"No, Jotin, it's nothing. So keep quiet! The doctor is coming now."
When the doctor entered, he said:
"Look here, you mustn't stay near the patient so much; you excite him. You go to bed, and my assistant will remain with him."
"No, Mashi, I can't let you go."
