132 IN THE VISION OF GOD
Kantilal's house thus became a scene of liveliness and
bustle all through the day and till late in the night
Kantilal then made this observation:
"Swamiji, you have converted onr humble home into a
veritable temple.'"
Being apprised of Ms arrival the Thakore Saheb sent
one of his officers to invite Ramdas to his palace. About
eleven o**clock in the morning, he "was taken in a carriage
to his princely residence. Kantilal and Maganlal accom-
panied him. He was received by the prince in a small,
well-furnished room. He sat down in an asan on the carpet,
and the others in the room also squatted on the floor.
Beside the prince was seated an English lady. Kamdas talked
freely, narrating the experiences he had gained in the course
of his travels. He spoke with the familiarity of a child
when it recounts its doings to the fondly listening mother.
Indeed, there was such a mother among the auditors. She
was the Engrlish lafty, Miss Elizabeth Sharpe, to whom he
would refer in future as Arnother Elizabeth,1 and to the
Thakore Saheb as *Baja Rain'. Raja Ram was also highly de-
lighted at the frank and simple talks of Ramdas in which
he would be so deeply absorbed as to lose all account of
time. A.t half-past twelve Raja Ram would start glancing
at his wrist-watch and exclaim:
"Oh! it is past twelye. I have to be in ray state office by
one." Then the meeting would break up, and Ramdas with
the young friends would return to Kantilal's.
For a fortnight he remained in Limbdi, and every day
he had to visit the palace where he would spend an hour
or two in the society of Raja Ram and mother Elizabeth,
both of whom would come to fetch him in their motor-car.
He discoursed upon divine love and eternal happiness, pre-
senting instances in his rambles in which how the former
had prevailed. They listened and were lost in a
state of gwefct oblivion. The pure love in the heart of
mother Elizabeth induced her one day to take Ramdas to