سندبادنامه 415.1

415.1

I hold absence better than that moonlike face; / I hold your life dear with tender care.
Then she asked: "What is the cause of this dispute and the reason for this altercation? For whom is this torment
and severity meant?" The draper's wife opened her tongue in complaint, gave an account of what had happened,
and said: "O mother, however much I apply my mind, nothing becomes known
it does not become known what his reason and motive was in this frantic behavior, that without any apparent offence
or known crime he decreed this concerning me, inflicted so many hardships upon me, and made [such harsh] demands.
And I do not know myself to have given premise to any suspicion, or to have caused any betrayal or distrust,
that would warrant this reproach, punishment, threat, and severity. All manner of
imaginations and apprehensions pass through my mind, but nothing is verified or confirmed.” The old crone said: