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 It was the sixth day of the Fifth month—rain not yet stopped. The Prince had been much more touched by her answer of the day before, which was deeper in feeling, and on that morning of heavy rain he sent with much kindness to inquire after her.

The lady wrote thus to the Prince, and he thought, "Not hopeless."

His poem:

At noon people were talking about the flooding of the Kamo River, and many went to see it, the Prince among them. He wrote:

She wrote:

In these words she replied to him; and his Highness made up his mind to come, and ordered perfumery for himself. Just then his old nurse, Jiju-no-Menoto, came up: "Where are you going?" she said, 158