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How didst thou find the bath? 'O my lady, answered she, 'I lacked but thy presence there. Thereupon said the mistress to her waiting-women, 'Come with me to the bath, for it is some days since I went thither. 'We hear and obey, answered they; and rose and accompanied her to the bath, after Enis el Jelis had retired to her own chamber and the lady had set two little slave-girls to keep the door, charging them to let none go in to the damsel.
'By Allah, replied Enis el Jelis, 'if we had but some musical instrument, our joy would be complete! When the old man heard what she said, he rose to his feet, and the Khalif said to Jaafer, 'I wonder what he is going to do. 'I know not, replied Jaafer. Then Ibrahim went out and returned with a lute; and the Khalif looked at it and knew it for that of Isaac the boon-companion.
When I heard thee speak thus, I held my peace and cared not to say aught to thee. 'O Enis el Jelis, said Noureddin, 'thou knowest that I have not expended my substance but on my friends, who have beggared me, and I think they will not leave me without help. 'By Allah, replied she, 'they will not profit thee in aught. Said he, 'I will rise at once and go to them and knock at their doors: maybe I shall get of them somewhat with which I may trade and leave pleasure and merry-making. So he rose and repaired to a certain street, where all his ten comrades lived.
Thou knowest that thy father bought me for ten thousand dinars; perhaps God may help thee to near that price, and if it be His will that we be reunited, we shall meet again. 'O Enis el Jelis, replied Noureddin, 'by Allah, I cannot endure to be parted from thee for a single hour! 'By Allah, O my lord, rejoined she, 'nor is it easy to me; but necessity compels, as says the poet: Necessity in life oft drives one into ways That to the courteous mind are foreign and abhorred.
Then he continued, 'O my son, I have no charge to lay on thee, except that thou fear God and look to the issue of thine actions and cherish the damsel Enis el Jelis. 'O my father, said Noureddin, 'who is like unto thee?
Some days after this it chanced, as Fate would have it, that the damsel went to the bath in the house, where some of the serving-women washed her, after which she arrayed herself in rich apparel, and her beauty and grace redoubled. Then she went in to the Vizier's wife and kissed her hand; and the lady said to her, 'May it profit thee, O Enis el Jelis!
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