The sight of Thako made me shrink back for a moment, but I overcame all hesitation, and making a low obeisance I took the dust of my elder sister-in-law's feet.
Xie Zhen then asked the under-jailer to take a letter to his aunt's daughter, married to Sun Xin, who was called Gu Dasao, 76 and who kept an inn outside the East Gate.
This was not denied. But Panchu was reminded that it had never been asserted that the second wife had come after the death of the first, but the former had been married by his uncle during the latter's lifetime.