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While she was bemoaning herself after this fashion, behold, the

Wazir went in to her and saluted her and informed her that he was

her husband's brother; and, telling her all that had passed

between them, laid open before her the whole story, how her son

Badr al-Din Hasan had spent a whole night with his daughter full

ten years ago but had disappeared in the morning. And he ended

with saying, "My daughter conceived by thy son and bare a male

child who is now with me, and he is thy son and thy son's son by

my daughter." When she heard the tidings that her boy, Badr

al-Din, was still alive and saw her brother-in-law, she rose up

to him and threw herself at his feet and kissed them, reciting

these lines:-

"Allah be good to him that gives glad tidings of thy steps; * In

very sooth for better news mine ears would never sue: Were he

content with worn-out robe, upon his back I'd throw * A heart to

pieces rent and torn when heard the word Adieu."