` Ah chela , if thou desertest me , I am all alone . ' ` He found his milk-teeth easily at any rate , ' said the old lady . ` But all priests are alike . ' Kim coughed severely . Being young , he did not approve of her flippancy . ` To importune the wise out of season is to invite calamity . ' ` There is a talking mynah ' -- the thrust came back with the well-remembered snap of the jewelled fore-finger -- ` over the stables which has picked up the very tone of the family priest . Maybe I forget honour to my guests , but if ye had seen him double his fists into his belly , which was like a half-grown gourd , and cry : `` Here is the pain ! '' ye would forgive . I am half minded to take the hakim 's medicine . He sells it cheap , and certainly it makes him fat as Shiv 's own bull . He does not deny remedies , but I doubted for the child because of the in-auspicious colour of the bottles . ' The lama , under cover of the monologue , had faded out into the darkness towards the room prepared . ` Thou hast angered him , belike , ' said Kim . ` Not he . He is wearied , and I forgot , being a grandmother . -LRB- None but a grandmother should ever oversee a child . Mothers are only fit for bearing . -RRB- Tomorrow , when he sees how my daughter 's son is grown , he will write the charm . Then , too , he can judge of the new hakim 's drugs . '
` Who is the XXXXX , Maharanee ? ' '
Kim Shiv chela colour drugs flippancy fore-finger hakim lama mynah