“Then I shall free her from this debt.” (He wishes to offer a ring) (Both the girls read the letters engraved with the name upon the ring and look at one another) King— “Do not think me to be anyone else (that is, other than King Dushyanta). This is a gift (token) from the king.” Priyamvada— “Then this ring is not fit to be separated from (your) finger. Yet, merely by your word (itself), this (Shakuntala) has now become free from debt.” (Laughing slightly) “Friend Shakuntala, you have been released (from your obligation) by this compassionate noble sir, or rather by the king himself. Now you may go.” Shakuntala— (To herself) “If I were under my own control, (only then would I go).” (Aloud) “Who are you to either stop me or let me go?” King— (Looking at Shakuntala, to himself) “Does she too feel toward me (with affection and longing) just as I feel toward her, or has my desire now begun to find fulfillment (that is, signs of the fulfillment of my wish are becoming visible)? For although (this Shakuntala) does not join in conversation with me (that is, does not directly speak with me), still, whenever I speak, she keeps her ears attentively turned toward me. And though (she) does not keep her face turned toward mine, nevertheless her gaze scarcely wanders toward other things (objects); that is, it turns toward no one other than me.”