* Mordecai.
   The apartments of the women are accounted so inviolable, that
   it is even a crime to enquire what passes within their walls.
   A man, says Chardin, may walk a hundred days, one after the
   other, by the house where the women are, and yet know no more
   what is done there than at the farther end of Tartary.  This
   sufficiently explains the conduct of Mordecai.

 * walked.
  13,14 
 * how Esther did.  Heb. the peace of Esther.
  Ge 37:14  1Sa 17:18  Ac 15:36