The Book of Jahāngīr's Fortune 16.1.6

16.1.6

Dressed as if for hunting, Mahabat Khan led the way to his own abode, and His Majesty went in and stayed there for a time. Mahabat placed his wretched sons around the Emperor. He had taken no thought of Nur Jahan Begam; so it now occurred to him that he would take the Emperor back to the royal abode, and make himself safe on that side also. With this intention, he conducted the Emperor back. But as it happened, Nur Jahan, thinking that His Majesty had gone out hunting, took the opportunity to pass over the river with Jawahir Khan, the eunuch, to pay a visit to her brother Asaf Khan. When Mahabat discovered the departure of Nur Jahan, he bitterly repented of the blunder he had made in not securing her. He now bethought him of Shahriyar, and saw that it would be a great error to let him be apart from the Emperor. So he made His Majesty mount once more, and carried him to the house of Shahriyar. Apprehension and fear for his life so distracted the traitor, that his deeds and words were not at all sensible. He neither knew what he said nor what he did, nor what was to be done. Every minute some design or some anxiety entered his mind, and caused regret. His Majesty made no opposition to any of his proposals.