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It was five o'clock. The devotees went off to their homes, and only M. and Narendra remained. Narendra took a water pot and went toward the duck pond and the tamarisk grove to wash. M. strolled about the temple garden. After a while he came past the kuthi toward the duck pond and saw Sri Ramakrishna standing on the landing of the steps on the south side of the pond. Narendra, water pot in hand, had washed and was standing there. The Master was saying, "Look here, come a bit more often. You've only just started coming, after all! After a first meeting everyone comes again and again, like a new husband." Narendra and M. laughed. "Well, you will come, won't you?" Narendra, a boy of the Brahmo Samaj, smiled and said, "Yes, I'll try."