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194 determined to be revenged on him for her son's death. She was almost overcome with sorrow and anger. She asked Sagami to remember their old relations of mistress and maid, and to assist her in her act of revenge. Sagami for a moment was at a loss to know what to say in reply. At last she decided that she would await her husband's return, and after she had learned under what circumstances he had killed Atsumori, she would decide her attitude. While she was thus trying to console Fuji-no-Kata, Kajiwara Kagétaka, the mean samurai who had tried to capture Tadanori, came in, accompanied by an old stone mason named Midaroku. He said that, with Naozané's assistance, he intended to examine the suspicious man who pretended to erect tombstones in memory of the Tairas who had fallen in battle. Sagami ushered him into the inner room, asking him to await her husband's return.

Soon after, Naozané returned and was surprised to see his wife.

"What! You here?" he asked with a look of displeasure.

"I felt anxious about Kojirō," she replied. "I wanted to obtain information about him, so I