Page:Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan.djvu/241



And she took it up [completing the 31-syllable poem he had begun]:

The Prince was pleased and thought her not without taste.

He seemed very elegant. He was attired as usual, his underdress exquisite. Her eye was much charmed, and she thought that she was too frivolous [to be thinking about it].

Next day he wrote:

She answered:

The messenger came back with his poem:

After that he came oftener, and her tiresome days were lightened. Rh