O-SODE-SAN
Can we not search for her?
OBAA-SAN
I am waiting here.—She may find her way back.—I would not have her come to an empty house.—Come—let's go within—and dream that yours and yours and mine are on their way to us.
[The old women go into the house. There is just a moment's silence—then:
AOYAGI
Hai! Hai! Hai!
[Aoyagi, utterly forlorn, enters. She looks at the house, turns and sees the mountains, covers her eyes, and drags herself wearily to the willow tree. She moans as though winter had fallen upon the world and were taunting her. The Gaki enters.
THE GAKI
So you have found your way—in life.