The World of Courtesans c10.156

c10.156

Then he meets a courtesan named Sukumalika He wants to escape but she follows him and tells him that her lover, the brother-in-law of the king, had fallen in love with a coquettish servant girl. When Sukumalika objected to this he promptly fell at her feet But true to his nature he has left her and gone to the servant girl. He now refuses to leave her. She requests the Vita to effect a reconciliation. A little later the Vita meets Dhanamitra, a merchant. Seeing him frightened and in dirty clothes, the Vita asks him whether he has been robbed of all the family wealth with which he has purchased goods for sale outside the kingdom or whether his wealth has been confiscated by the king or whether he has lost everything in gambling.