In plain words
I saw them every day when I bowed at her feet,” he said.
The carrying off of Sītā
While Sītā, Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa were at Pañcavaṭī, Mārīca, on Rāvaṇa's order, came in the form of a golden deer and roamed about before the leaf hut, catching Sītā's eye. When Sītā asked Rāma to catch it and bring it for her pleasure, Rāma left Lakṣmaṇa to guard her and went off chasing that deer of illusion. It would come near Rāma, as if about to be caught, and then run far away; at last Rāma loosed an arrow. As soon as it struck, Mārīca took his true form and, imitating Rāma's voice: ‘Hā Sītā! Hā Lakṣmaṇa!’ he cried, and fell to the ground. Hearing those words, Sītā: “Lakṣmaṇa! Your brother seems to be caught in some danger. Go to his help at once,” she urged him. However much Lakṣmaṇa reassured her that it was only a demon's trick and that no harm could come to Rāma, she would not listen. In the end, unable to bear the harsh words Sītā spoke, Lakṣmaṇa had no choice but to leave her alone. As he went, he drew a line around the leaf hut and said, “Whoever crosses this line and comes in shall die.” He told Sītā not to cross it and come out, and set off.
A little while after Lakṣmaṇa left, Rāvaṇa came in the guise of a sannyāsin and said, ‘Lady, give alms.’ Without crossing the line Lakṣmaṇa had drawn, Sītā offered food from her side of it. “Alas, how can you give it from so far away? I am so very hungry! I cannot take a step forward,” and so Rāvaṇa put on a great show. He told her to come near and give it. The moment Sītā crossed the line, he took his true form, seized her and carried her off to Laṅkā. He kept her in the Aśoka grove and set some demon women around her. “Why did that wretched deer have to come? I was tricked into asking for it to be caught!” So Sītā went on grieving. What use was it to grieve then? In times of trouble, such desires keep arising.