I would be prepared to swear that the following story is true.
One day, when both the girls had become young ladies of mar-
riageable age the Shah summoned them to his study. There he
presented two young men to his daughters, with the remark:
"These are your future husbands. I hope that they will make
you happy."
One of the men was Ali Ghavan, son of a big landowner, and
the other Ali Djam. Shams was to marry young Ghavan and Ash-
raff young Djam. On the evening before the double wedding, however, Shams went to her father and said:
"I like Djam much better than Ghavan. Could we exchange
husbands?"
"Very well," said the Shah. "It shall be arranged."
So at the very last moment Ashraff had to marry the man who
was supposed to have become her sister's husband. Both these
marriages ended in divorce.