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We gave not over drinking till half the night was past; and,

being well warmed with drink, we went to the sleeping chamber and

lay there till morning. I then arose and fared forth from her

leaving the fifty dinars with her as before; and, finding the

donkey boy at the door, rode to the Khan and slept awhile. After

that I went out to make ready the evening meal and took a brace

of geese with gravy on two platters of dressed and peppered rice,

and got ready colocasia[FN#541]-roots fried and soaked in honey,

and wax candles and fruits and conserves and nuts and almonds and

sweet scented flowers; and I sent them all to her. As soon as it

was night I again tied up fifty dinars in a kerchief and,

mounting the ass as usual, rode to the mansion where we ate and

drank and lay together till morning when I threw the kerchief and

dinars to her[FN#542] and rode back to the Khan.