Sindokht Confronts Rudabeh

From A8.9, Rudabeh’s Mother Is Not Pleased. It illustrates A8.9.31–41:

A8.9.31
She sent for Rudabeh; the summons made,She struck her face in anguish, sore dismayed.
A8.9.32
Her two narcissi washed each roseate cheek,With tears that shone before she rose to speak:
A8.9.33
“O child, bright moon, born for the royal height,Why choose the pit and cast the throne from sight?
A8.9.34
What lesson have I failed to teach or show?What courtly rule have I not made you know?
A8.9.35
Why have you wronged me thus? Speak now and sayWho sent this woman, what has passed this way.
A8.9.36
For whom are these rich gifts, the ring, the dress?What hidden bond drives you to such excess?
A8.9.37
The Tazi crown has passed into our hand,And brought us good and ill throughout the land.
A8.9.38
Will you cast your name to winds and let it fly,And watch its hard-won honor scatter by?
A8.9.39
May I not live to see so black a stain!Better no daughter than such lasting pain.”
A8.9.40
Rudabeh dropped her gaze toward the ground,And stood in shame, and could not make a sound.
A8.9.41
Love’s water from her lowered eyes was shed,Her two narcissi seemed adorned with red.