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She is yours!--I have met perfect faith.--Five h.e.l.ls lie before me--but I have met a perfect faith.--You cannot know what wonder I am knowing. From the sixth h.e.l.l I have seen a perfect faith.--I am content to die in this shape. Strike, Riki!
RIKI
I have my love.
THE GAKI
But a peace has come upon me, a peace that I have never known.--I seem to be on wings--afloat in the sky.--Stars and suns swing gently by--and cool clouds brush my brow.--Five h.e.l.ls lie before me.--Can it be, in each I shall find peace like this?--(_He falls on his knees_) Now a fire rages deep in me--a pain--I'm torn.--Oh, Obaa-San, I die--I die.--Come to me--touch me--let me feel your gentle hands.--So! So!--I have never known such gentleness.--Oh, I am cold--cold! Hold me--
[_He rises--sways--and falls. It is full day. The Gaki rises wonderfully._
Obaa-San--I see--I see.--The h.e.l.ls were made by some man afraid of the joy of life.--It was too beautiful for his belief.--Riki--Aoyagi, there is the mountain gleaming in the morning light.--Go--see your footprints side by side.--A Gaki's feet trod upon them, but left no mark--and they are there side by side.--O-Sode-San, I look across the River of Heaven;--there stands your lover waiting for you--an empty boat is here to bear you to him.--O-Katsu-San,--the messenger of the other world bears your little one upon his broad, warm back.--They are smiling, O-Katsu-San--Obaa-San--
[_He points to Riki and Aoyagi. Obaa-San goes to them and lays her hands upon them._
OBAA-SAN
My little girl!--my little boy!--Today the sun is very bright.
_The Curtains Close._
THE VERY NAKED BOY
AN INTERLUDE BEFORE THE CURTAIN
CHARACTERS
SHE HE BROTHER
_The scene is half way to a proposal._
_A hallway with a heavily-curtained doorway in the centre. Right of this are two chairs with a tabouret between them. Right and Left are curtained arches._
_She enters quickly, crossing to the chairs._
HE (_following breathlessly and almost colliding with her as she stops_)
Genevieve!
SHE (_with a calmness strangely at variance with her entrance_)
Well?
HE
Why did you--
SHE
I didn't.
HE
I beg your pardon, you may not have known it, but you did.
SHE
I didn't.
HE
If you'll only say you didn't mean it.
SHE
I didn't _do_ it.
HE
Now, Genevieve, you know--
SHE
I didn't.
HE
Well, why did you--?
SHE
_I didn't do it!_
HE (_meltingly but without humor or subtlety_)
Well, if you didn't do it, _dear_--
[_She is adamant._
Why did you run away the moment I came up to you?
SHE
I didn't run away--
