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 On the day following his first letter this poem was sent:

Feeling was rootless, but being unlearned in loneliness, and attracted, she wrote an answer:

He wrote often and she answered—sometimes—and felt her loneliness a little assuaged. Again she received a letter. After expressing feelings of great delicacy:

Her answer:

Thus she wrote, and His Highness decided to come as a private person.

It was still daylight, and he secretly called his servant Ukon-no-zo, who had usually been the medium by which the letters had reached the Prince, and said, Rh