As soon as he had gone the grief-stricken husband and wife sat down opposite each other and gave way to tears.

That night Sita's grief-stricken husband wandered into the forest for a last look at her and was shot accidentally by the deputy.

But he turned a deaf ear alike to her and his gentle, enduring wife, who, bowed with sorrow, yet sought to soothe her grief-stricken husband.

"It is all too true, Hester," moaned the grief-stricken husband.