1. “On the wedding night when my son entered the bedroom, he dropped dead.
2. So we put out all the wedding lamps, and all my neighbours came to comfort me. I remained in control of myself until the evening of the second day,
3. when they all left. That night I got up and came out to this field, as you see.
4. I have decided never to return to that town. I am going to stay here in constant mourning, neither eating nor drinking anything until I die.”
5. When she told me this, I put aside my own thoughts and spoke sharply to her: