This utter disappointment made Majnun's parents altogether hopeless, and they no longer kept watch over him, seeing that life and death to him were both the same, and this gave Majnun freedom to wander about the town in search of Leila, enquiring of everyone he met about Leila. By chance he met a letter-carrier who was carrying mail on the back of a camel, and when Majnun asked this man Leila's whereabouts, he said, "Her parents have left this country and have gone to live a hundred miles from here." Majnun begged him to give his message to Leila. He said, "With pleasure." But when Majnun began to tell the message the telling continued for a long, long time.