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In Mirza Sajjad Ali’s household, there was no elder, so the games took place in his drawing room. But this is not to say that the other people of Mirza’s household were happy with these goings-on. And not only the members of his household but the neighbours and even the servants were constantly making malicious comments. ‘The game’s ill-omened ! It’s destroying the family. Heaven forbid that anybody should become addicted to chess, he’d be utterly useless to God or man, at home or in the world ! It’s a dreadful sickness, that’s what.’ Even Mirza’s wife, the Begum Sahiba, hated it so much that she sought every possible occasion to scold him. But she hardly ever found the chance, for the game would have begun before she woke up and in the evening, Mirzaji would be likely to appear in the bedroom only after she had gone to sleep. But the servants of course felt the full force of her rage. ‘He’s asked for paan, has he ? Well, tell him to come and get it himself ! He hasn’t got time for his dinner ? Then go and dump it on his head, he can eat it or give it to the dogs !’ But to his face she could not say anything at all. She was not so angry with him as with Mir Sahib, whom she referred to as ‘Mir the Troublemaker.’ Possibly it was Mirzaji who laid all the blame on Mir in order to excuse himself.