Part One, Pages 65 - 87 Summary

When Shimamura awakes the next morning, Komako is awake and the sun is up. She says she did not awake in time to go home before daylight. She declines to accompany him to the bath for fear someone might see her. Shimamura says she is "completely tamed," and has been cleaning his room. It is the first of many such mornings as Komako stops even trying to leave early. On the first day, Shimamura suggests she practice the samisen and she telephones home, requesting the instrument be brought to her. While they wait, Shimamura asks if she was engaged to Yukio. She says it is not true, that there was a time his mother thought it was a good idea, that she felt she owed his mother a great deal and felt she had to do what...