Part 18 (1/2)

AOYAGI

Did she know your songs?

RIKI

Aoyagi! What do you want to know?

AOYAGI

Did she know your song to me--”b.u.t.terfly, b.u.t.terfly, alight upon the willow tree”?

RIKI

Perhaps.--I made that to you years ago--when you were a dream in my heart.

AOYAGI

At Is.h.i.+yama?

RIKI

Perhaps.

AOYAGI

Hai!--Obaa-San, my mother!--Oh, my heart--my heart--

RIKI

Aoyagi--what have I done? Let me comfort you!

[_He goes to her._

AOYAGI

You leave me nothing in all the world.

RIKI

I give you all my world.

AOYAGI

Hai! Hai! Hai!

RIKI

Let me go and call the lady bound for Is.h.i.+yama.

AOYAGI