repulsivo. Comenzaban a hablar de los asuntos de la provincia de Iyo y Genji incluso bromeaba con él, cuando un repentino sentimiento de incomodidad se apoderó de él. ¿Por qué aquellos recuerdos le hacían sentir tanta torpeza? Iyo no Suke era un hombre bastante anciano y aquello no le había hecho ningún daño. * «Estos escrúpulos son absurdos —pensó Genji». Sin embargo, ella tenía razón al pensar que era un emparejamiento demasiado extrañamente mal avenido; y al recordar las advertencias de Uma no Kami, sintió que se había portado mal. Aunque la crueldad de ella aún lo hería profundamente, se alegraba casi por el bien de Iyo de que no
‘My daughter is to be married’ Iyo was saying ‘And I am going to take my wife back with me to my province.’
Here was a double surprise. At all costs he must see Utsusemi once again. He spoke with her brother and the boy discussed the matter with her. It would have been difficult enough for anyone to have carried on an intrigue with the prince under such circumstances as these.
But for her, so far below him in rank and beset by new restrictions, it had now become unthinkable. She could not however bear to lose all contact with him, and not only did she answer his letters much more kindly than before, but took pains, though they were written with apparent negligence, to add little touches that would give him pleasure and make him see that she still cared for him.
All this he noticed, and though he was vexed that she would not relent towards him, he found it impossible to put her out of his mind.
En cuanto a la otra muchacha, no creía en absoluto que fuera el tipo de persona que iba a seguir suspirando por él una vez que estuviera bien