O Toyo. Nothing.
Kashiku. Nothing, my lady.
O Toyo. Put out the lamps. [Kashiku blows out candles on dressing table.]
Go now, Kashiku, and do you sleep deeply,
Breathing poppies.
Kashiku. My lady—
O Toyo. Go. [Kashiku opens shoji R. and goes out shutting it after her. O Toyo crosses, too, and lies on the sleeping mat. The room is almost in total darkness.]
O Toyo. I shall kiss him—I shall kiss him! [The lantern at the head of the sleeping mat glows more and more brightly until a cat's head appears on it. At this moment a cat-call comes from the garden. (Note.—If these effects cannot be gotten with no hint of the ludicrous, have the lantern glow with increasing light but use no cat's head or cat call.) With the increase of light, O Toyo has begun to moan and toss and at the moment of the cat-call she rises as in a trance and goes towards the door L. As she passes the screen Ito Soda steps out from behind it and plunges his dirk into her back; she falls with a little, stifled cry. Instantly, in utter darkness, the curtain falls.]