“Yes, sir.”

“What does the young Mistress do every day?”

“Sewing....”

“And?”

“She plays samisen.”[(19)]

How unexpected! However quite interesting and so:

“What else?” I asked.

“She goes to the temple,” answers the girl.

Unexpected again. The samisen playing and the temple going are decidedly a curious conglomeration.

“Does she go there to worship?”