and when they were both in the chamber, she locked on them the door, which was a stout and strong, and said to the Robber, “Woe to thee, O fool!  Thou hast fallen into the trap and now I have but to cry out and the officers of police will come and take thee and thou wilt lose thy life, O Satan!” Quoth he, “Let me go forth;” and quoth she, “Thou art a man and I am a woman; and in thy hand is a knife, and I am afraid of thee.”  He cried, “Take the knife from me.”  So she took it and said to her husband, “Art thou a woman and he a man?  Pain his neck-nape with tunding, even as he tunded thee; and if he put out his hand to thee, I will cry out a single cry and the policemen will come and take him and hew him in two.”  So the husband said to him, “O thousand-horned,[FN#383] O dog, O dodger, I owe thee a deposit[FN#384] wherefor thou hast dunned me.”  And he fell to bashing him grievously with a stick of holm-oak,[FN#385] whilst he called out to the woman for help and prayed her to deliver him:  but she said, “Keep thy place till the morning, and thou shalt see queer things.”  And her husband beat him within the chamber, till he killed[FN#386] him and he swooned away.  Then he left beating him and when the Robber came to himself, the woman said to her husband, “O man, this house is on hire and we owe its owners much money, and we have naught; so how wilt thou do?” And she went on to bespeak him thus.  The Robber asked “And what is the amount of the rent?” ’The husband answered, “’Twill be eighty dirhams;” and the thief said, “I will pay this for thee and do thou let me go my way.”  Then the wife enquired, “O man, how much do we owe the baker and the greengrocer?” Quoth the Robber, “What is the sum of this?” And the husband said, “Sixty dirhams.”  Rejoined the other, “That makes two hundred dirhams; let me go my way and I will pay them.”  But the wife said, O my dear, and the girl groweth up and needs must we marry her and equip her and do what else is needful.”  So the Robber said to the husband, “How much dost thou want?” and he rejoined, “An hundred dirhams in a modest way."[FN#387] Quoth the Robber, “That maketh three hundred dirhams.”  Then the woman said, “O my dear, when the girl is married, thou wilt need money for winter expenses, charcoal and firewood and other necessaries.”  The Robber asked “What wouldst thou have?” And she answered, “An hundred dirhams.”  He rejoined, “Be it four hundred dirhams.”  And she continued, “O my dear and O coolth of mine eyes, needs must my husband have capital in hand,[FN#388] wherewith he may buy goods and open him a shop.”  Said he, “How much will that be?” And she, “An hundred dirhams.”  Quoth the Robber, “That maketh five hundred dirhams; I will pay it; but may I be triply divorced from my wife if all my possessions amount to more than this, and they be the savings of twenty years!  Let me go my way, so I may deliver them to thee.”  Cried she, “O fool, how shall I let thee go thy way?  Utterly impossible!  Be pleased to give me a right