Pao-chai thereupon took a seat on the stove-couch, and quietly, in the course of their conversation on one thing and another, she managed to ascertain her age, her native village and other such particulars, and then setting her mind diligently to put, on the sly, her conversation and mental capacity to the test, she discovered how deeply worthy she was to be respected and loved. But in a while Pao-yue arrived, and Pao-chai at once quitted the apartment.
How is it, Pao-yue at once inquired, that cousin Pao-chai was chatting along with you so lustily, and that as soon as she saw me enter, she promptly ran away?
Hsi Jen did not make any reply to his first question, and it was only when he had repeated it that Hsi Jen remarked: Do you ask me? How can I know what goes on between you two?
When Pao-yue heard these words, and he noticed that the look on her face was so unlike that of former days, he lost no time in putting on a smile and asking: Why is it that you too are angry in real earnest?
How could I presume to get angry! Hsi Jen rejoined smiling indifferently; but you mustnt, from this day forth, put your foot into this room! and as you have anyhow people to wait on you, you shouldnt come again to make use of my services, for I mean to go and attend to our old mistress, as in days of old.
With this remark still on her lips, she lay herself down on the stove-couch and closed her eyes. When Pao-yue perceived the state of mind she was in, he felt deeply surprised and could not refrain from coming forward and trying to cheer her up. But Hsi Jen kept her eyes closed and paid no heed to him, so that Pao-yue was quite at a loss how to act. But espying She Yueeh enter the room, he said with alacrity: Whats up with your sister?
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