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Quoth she "Why weepest thou?" Quoth I "It is nothing!" Then

giving the eunuch some of the gold pieces, I begged him to be go

between[FN#559] in the matter; but he laughed and said, "She is

more in love with thee than thou with her: she hath no occasion

for the stuffs she hath bought of thee and did all this only for

the love of thee; so ask of her what thou wilt and she will deny

thee nothing." When she saw me giving the dinars to the eunuch,

she returned and sat down again; and I said to her, "Be

charitable to thy slave and pardon him what he is about to say."

Then I told her what was in my mind and she assented and said to

the eunuch, "Thou shalt carry my message to him," adding to me,

"And do thou whatso the eunuch biddeth thee." Then she got up and

went away, and I paid the merchants their monies and they all

profited; but as for me, regret at the breaking off of our

intercourse was all my gain; and I slept not the whole of that

night.