about freedom a wholly Eastern ability to take advantage of restraint.
In other words she was too clever for him.

On top of all that she had dared outrage his royal feelings by refusing
to be given in marriage to the husband be selected for her--a fine, black-
bristling, stout cavalier of sixty with a wife or two already and impoverished
estates that would have swallowed Yasmini's fortune nicely at a gulp.
Incidentally, the husband would have eagerly canceled a gambling debt
in exchange for a young wife with an income.

There was no point at which Yasmini and himself could meet on less
than rapier terms. Her exploits in disguise were notorious--so notorious
that men sang songs about them in the drinking places and the khans.
And as if that were not bad enough there was a rumor lately that she
had turned Abhisharika. The word is Sanskrit and poetic. To the ordinary
folk, who like to listen to love-stories by moonlight on the roofs or under
trees, that meant that she had chosen her own lover and would go to
him, when the time should come, of her own free will. To Gungadhura,
naturally, such a word bore other meanings. As we have said, he was
a stickler for propriety.

Last, and most uncomfortable crime of all, it seemed that she had now
arranged with Samson to have English ladies call on her at intervals.
Not a prophet on earth could guess where that might lead to, and to
what extremes of Western fashion; for though one does not see the
high-caste women of Rajputana, they themselves see everything and
know all that is going on. But it needed no prophet to explain that a
woman visited at intervals by the wives of English officers could not
be murdered easily or safely.