Shubhuni father wiping his face with the napkin, spoke with a heavy voice " Shubhuni you know the renowned Barrister Das ? Shubhuni nodded her face ,and said " the one whose pictures come on newspapers."
"Yes ,he has two sons .One is ten years and the other is sixteen ."
Hearing this Shubhuni maa ,bounced with que of questions ."don't you think the boy is younger to our daughter ,he is sixteen and ours is almost nineteen. "
Shubhuni father , wiped his fingers after dipping them in finger bowl said " He is not sixteen ,but the Barrister babbu himself is the groom." Shubhuni father stood from the dinning table and went to his room.
Shubhuni eyes were filled with tears , thinking was she was , so
useless that she was about to be married to an old widower .A father of two grown up children.
That night ,she heard her mother talking ,it's fine if she gets married to Barrister sahib ,she will live in Badi Bari (bungalow) .She will wear good clothes and what about jewelry they will adorn her with. Oh ! my god ,she will move in the car and all the people will call her Badi Bari ki Malkin ."
That night ,she heard her mother talking ,it's fine if she gets married to Barrister sahib ,she will live in Badi Bari (bungalow) .She will wear good clothes and what about jewelry they will adorn her with. Oh ! my god ,she will move in the car and all the people will call her Badi Bari ki Malkin ."
She thanked Maa Kali for getting such a good proposal for her daughter .But no one read Shubhuni's heart .
She lied down on the floor of the porch . Her beauty radiated more in the silver light of the moon ,as with a peacock quill she drew her frame of mind.
The white doves seeing her pain ,moved towards her to give her heart some comfort. But Shubhuni was burning in the flames of her past ,that why her decision of leaving studies was so wrong that now she had to get married to an aged widower.
The night of pain and distress passed out slowly. Shubhuni's past days scenes moved in frames from infront of her eyes.
The thought of what would happen the next morning was not making her anxious, but her decision of leaving books ,school was making her repent .
Suddenly the stick of the masterji came infront of her, and a voice echoed in her ears "Shubhni, speak the table of nine ? "
She saw her dumb shadow standing infront of her ,as the voice kept on echoing "speak the table of nine ." and all of a sudden the stick thrashed Shabuni's fist and vanished in the air .
Shabuni screamed and her parents rushed to her room.
They saw her sitting on her four poster bed ,and her long black hair open covering her face and her hands covering her ears .
She repeatedly said "nine into nine..,wait I will tell you masterji " and all of a sudden Shubhuni fainted on her father's chest .
