विक्रम चरित (उज्जैन सम्राट् विक्रमादित्य - पराक्रम, न्याय एवं ३२ पुतलियों की कथा सटीक)

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ness prompted him to concede at once to the lovely creature
before him all she sued for; whilst a dread of the world, of
his own household, of his wife in particular, bade him put
an end to the meeting, and turn the frantic woman from his
presence and the privacy of his room: Thus placed, need
we wonder that a man of such weak parts as Dushwant was,
should feel his scruples gradually fade away one after the
other, until he was left wholly under the influence of a pretty
and attractive woman, bathed in tears, and supplicating
for his love in pathetic and forcible expressions? To cut
the matter short, he was completely overwhelmed by her
blandishments, and he fell into her embraces. Having
spent the remainder of the night together, as the rays of the
morn pierced through the flimsy curtains, Dushwant roused
the partner of his guilt from the deep sleep in which she
was plunged, and entreated her to be gone, lest the inmates
of the house should suspect the occurrence of the preceding
night, and thus render him not only the butt of all his
friends, but, that which he most dreaded, the object of the
just reproaches of an enraged wife. The actress slowly
opened her eyes, and finding the merchant in just such a
strait as she wished him to be in, asked for some token of
their sojourn together; but she said that she did not wish
for it then and there,—she only wanted him to pledge his
word of honor that he would satisfy her on that head when
she made the requisition; she said she was not sufficiently
collected then to mention what it was to be, but would
think over it, and name it on a future occasion. The
merchant, anxious to rid himself of her presence, took the
desired oath, and she went away chuckling inwardly at the
success she had met with.
She now repaired to her house in all haste, and having
bathed and changed her apparel, returned not long after to
Dushwant's house, to claim the fulfilment of the promise
he had made to her that morning. She said, “Sir, may I
request you will be pleased to ratify the promise you so
generously made to me last night? I have called expressly