Chapter 67

The King read these lines with wonder and delight and said to his Eunuch,[247] "O Mukbil, go to thy mistress, Sitt al-Husn,[248] and say her, Come, speak the King who biddeth thee hither to take thy solace in seeing this right wondrous ape!" So the Eunuch went out and presently returned with the lady who, when she saw me veiled her face and said, "O my father! hast thou lost all sense of honour? How cometh it thou art pleased to send for me and show me to strange men?" "O Sitt al-Husn," said he, "no man is h…