Yes—I think she was singing.
AOYAGI
She was singing.
RIKI
What do you mean, Aoyagi?
AOYAGI
Who was she?
RIKI
I do not know.—She said she would pass Ishiyama.
AOYAGI
Where did you see her?
RIKI
Beyond the stream—in a little glade.
AOYAGI
Did she sing your song?
RIKI
My song? No.
AOYAGI
Did she know your songs?
RIKI
Aoyagi! What do you want to know?
AOYAGI
Did she know your song to me—"Butterfly, butterfly, alight upon the willow tree"?
RIKI
Perhaps.—I made that to you years ago—when you were a dream in my heart.
AOYAGI
At Ishiyama?
RIKI
Perhaps.
AOYAGI
Hai!—Obaa-San, my mother!—Oh, my heart—my heart—
RIKI
Aoyagi—what have I done? Let me comfort you!
[He goes to her.
AOYAGI
You leave me nothing in all the world.
RIKI
I give you all my world.
AOYAGI
Hai! Hai! Hai!
RIKI
Let me go and call the lady bound for Ishiyama.
AOYAGI
Riki!—ah!
RIKI
Little Aoyagi—my love—she will be tender with you.—And when your tears are gone, she'll bear your message on to Obaa-San.
[He goes to her, but she draws away. For a moment he is uncertain what to do;—then—he speaks.
I'll bring her back to you.
AOYAGI
Riki!—No!—We came up the mountain-path together—side by side.—We—but now, Riki, we go two ways.—I to Obaa-San—you to—