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chapter eight Dreams and Portents T he second Round Table Conference was convened in the autumn of 1931, and I was again nominated a delegate. The Conspiracy Trial was making slow progress. The principal approver had been examined-in-chief by me during seventeen sittings of the Tribunal and was being cross-examined by defence counsel in a leisurely fashion when I left for London. The Governor-General had suc ceeded in persuading the Indian National Congress to participate in the Round Table Conference, and the Congress had nominated Mr. Gandhi as its sole delegate. The conference adjourned in December and I returned to Delhi. The approver was still under cross-examination. had seen in a dream that my marriage to Asaf, youngest daughter of Sir Fazal-i-Husain, was being celebrated. She asked me to request Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih to interpret the extraordinary dream. His interpretation was that I would suffer