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20 *Osayo.—(Follows him, running across the bridge, and when she reaches the cottage she tries to pull him away from the door.) Kaku-chan! Oh, Kaku-chan!
 * Kakutaro.—I have some business with her I tell you! If you don’t wish to stay here, please go away. Oh, please, Osayo-chan, go away and leave me here! (He peeps again into the cottage, through the window, by catching hold of the window-ledges.) Why will you interrupt me?
 * Osayo.—But what would you do if it were a fox?
 * Kakutaro.—(Looks again into the cottage.) Miss Rosa, Miss Rosa! Dont’Don’t [sic] you know me? I am the messenger from that tailor’s shop in Kobe!
 * Osayo.—Oh, Kaku-chan, please don’t call out like that! (Saying this, she takes hold of him, and with all her strength tries to pull him away toward the right-hand side of the stage.)
 * Kakutaro.—There she is! There she is!… Miss Rosa!
 * Osayo.—Don’t, Kaku-chan! (This time she goes to the window to look, but shrinks back in terror.) No one answers your call, Kakuchan…. I assure you that there is no one there at all!
 * Kakutaro.—(Paying no attention to Osayo) Miss Rosa! Miss Rosa!
 * Osayo.—Oh, let us go home quickly, Kaku-chan! You must be crazy!
 * Kakutaro.—Look. I tell you. She is there! I can see her washing her body in the water … look! (He