The hope of marriage in grown up maidens when they hear any body only talk of it in their presence, is slenderer than even my body.
प्रदानकाक्षिणीनां च कन्यानां वयसि स्थिते। श्रुत्वा कथास्तथायुक्ताः साऽऽशा कृशतरी मया॥