Nargis

Of the forty-two letters I opened today, thirty were poems, and all to the same woman! The funniest part is they're all in different handwriting.

• Raihana BegumI happen to know who that woman is.
  NargisMy lady, then you must know the price too?
  Raihana BegumI'll set the price. You just keep copying.
• Afzal KhanMind how you gloat over another's letters. Someday your own will pass through someone else's hands too.

Only four people in this arcade know that troop numbers hide in the third line of the grain ledger. Today that became five.

• Shehzada IskandarAm I the fifth?
  NargisIf you were the fifth, Your Highness, would I have posted this?
  Shehzada IskandarThen I'll just have to ask her myself.
• Tulpan AghaWhoever counts numbers never counts themselves.