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In plain words

Today Sri Ramakrishna is sitting with the devotees in that parlour at Kamalkutir. It is the second of April, 1882, five in the afternoon. Keshab was in an inner room and word was sent to him. He came out in his tunic and shawl and bowed. A devotee friend of his, Kalinath Bose, was ill, and he was on his way to see him; but the Master had come, and so Keshab did not go. The Master said, "You have a great deal to do, and you have to write for the newspapers too; you get no leisure to come out to Dakshineswar; so I've come myself to see you. Hearing that you were ill, I promised the Mother a green coconut and sugar. I told Her, 'Mother, if something should happen to Keshab, who will there be to talk with when I go to Calcutta?'"