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Updated: May 14, 2025
Occasionally there had been quarrels between them, as was only right, since Kadambini wished to make it dear that her love for Jogmaya was unbounded, while her friend complained that Kadambini did not return a love equal to her own. They were both sure that, if they once met, they would be inseparable. Kadambini said to the traveller: "I will go to Sripati's house at Nisindapur."
The result of a letter, he thought, might not be satisfactory; so he resolved to go to Ranihat, and act on what he learnt. So Sripati went, and Jogmaya on her part said to Kadambini "Friend, it hardly seems proper for you to stop here any longer. What will people say?" Kadambini stared solemnly at Jogmaya, and said: "What have I to do with people?" Jogmaya was astounded.
By degrees their voices became so loud that they forgot that Kadambini was sleeping in the next room. The one said: "We're in a nice fix! I tell you, I heard it with my own ears!" And the other answered angrily: "What do I care about that? I can see with my own eyes, surely." At length Jogmaya said: "Very well. Tell me when Kadambini died."
Watching her fearfulness, the rest of the house fell into a sort of terror. The servants and Jogmaya herself began to see ghosts. One midnight, Kadambini came out from her bedroom weeping, and wailed at Jogmaya's door: "Sister, sister, let me lie at your feet! Do not put me by myself!" Jogmaya's anger was no less than her fear.
Then she said sharply: "If you have nothing to do with people, we have. How can we explain the detention of a woman belonging to another house?" Kadambini said: "Where is my father-in-law's house?" "Confound it!" thought Jogmaya. "What will the wretched woman say next?" Very slowly Kadambini said: "What have I to do with you? Am I of the earth?
His wife stilled her curiosity for a long time; then she came to his couch and demanded: "What did you hear?" "That you have certainly made a mistake." Jogmaya was nettled. Women never make mistakes, or, if they do, a sensible man never mentions them; it is better to take them on his own shoulders. Jogmaya snapped: "May I be permitted to hear how?"
Kadambini had come, but she was not at one with her friend: death was between them. She could feel no intimacy for others so long as her existence perplexed her and consciousness remained. Kadambini would look at Jogmaya, and brood. She would think: "She has her husband and her work, she lives in a world far away from mine.
You laugh, weep, love; each grips and holds his own; I merely look. You are human, I a shadow. I cannot understand why God has kept me in this world of yours." So strange were her look and speech that Jogmaya understood something of her drift, though not all. Unable either to dismiss her, or to ask her any more questions, she went away, oppressed with thought.
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