Dont run away, he said; sister-in-law Lien has already reported your conduct to madame Wang; and explained that you had tried to make her carry on an improper flirtation with you; that she had temporised by having recourse to a scheme to escape your importunities, and that she had imposed upon you in such a way as to make you wait for her in this place. Our lady was so terribly incensed, that she well-nigh succumbed; and hence it is that she bade me come and catch you! Be quick now and follow me, and let us go and see her.
After Chia Jui had heard these words, his very soul could not be contained within his body.
My dear nephew, he entreated, do tell her that it wasn and Ill show you my gratitude to-morrow in a substantial manner.
Letting you off, rejoined Chia Se, is no difficult thing; but how much, I wonder, are you likely to give? Besides, what you now utter with your lips, there will be no proof to establish; so you had better write a promissory note.
How could I put what happened in black and white on paper? observed Chia Jui.
theres no difficulty about that either! replied Chia Se; just write an account of a debt due, for losses in gambling, to some one outside; for payment of which you had to raise funds, by a loan of a stated number of taels, from the head of the house; and that will be all that is required.
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