The World of Courtesans c11.75

c11.75

Malati in order to win the favours of a lover must tell him what a wonderful lover he is. She must try to estrange him from his wife and relatives. But if all these stratagems fail she was to instigate her supplier to come out in the presence of the lover and demand from her the money she owed him. But if even this ruse fails to move the lover, then she must ask him for money to fulfil a religious vow. She must say that she wanted to worship at a temple as thanksgiving to the goddess who has secured her lover If all this failed she was to empty her house of all her belongings, burn them and then proclaim that she had lost everything.