meanwhile laili was living in the jungle where her husband had left her a little heap of ashes. as soon as majnun had gone, the fakir had taken her ashes and made them quite clean, and then he had mixed clay and water with the ashes, and made the figure of a woman with them, and so laili regained her human form, and khuda sent life into it. but laili had become once more a hideous old woman, with a long, long nose, and teeth like tusks; just such an old woman, excepting her teeth, as she had been when she came out of the rohu fish; and she lived in the jungle, and neither ate nor drank, and she kept on saying, "majnun, majnun; i want majnun."