"Did a woman in Kimono stay here?" "She left this morning" "She acted funny last night" "Companion?" "A man" "Your inn register" "I'll check again" "The man was about 30 and had a bag" "Seemingly an educated man" "He took a bus this morning and went toward Takarazuka" "Roger" "Short of hands, so the bedding..." "That's lucky for us" "The woman left her things" "We only need the man's fingerprints now" "Is it a murder case?" "Do women scream committing suicide?" "SHADOW OF DECEPTION" "Minako" "When are you going to Tokyo next?" "The end of next week" "Once in 3 months isn't enough?" "Said so, didn't you?" "Is Tokyo so nice?" "Fashions change so quickly there" "When you go, drop in at Hase's in Nihonbashi drop in at Hase's in Nihonbashi" "Always remember to call on our customers" "Understand?" "MATSUYAMA" "Masayo" "I'd like 10,000 yen" "How do you do" "Get any fish?" "A sea bass" "See?" "A good looking one" "Tea" "Thank you" "A fish is tugging" "Wasn't it good?" "He's very particular" "He doesn't like ugly fish or women" "I'd like a woman's rubbed copy" "Oh, my." "I'm not a fish" "I'm going over to the shop" "Welcome" "Welcome." "Thank you" "Masutomi's coming, so please pay him" "Master's at home" "If there's anything, let me know" "I see" "Excuse me." "Please be comfortable" "She's so nice!" "Why did she marry a man over 60?" "After his money?" "But she works very hard?" "He lets her manage his branch shop?" "Yes, to keep her out of mischief" "TOKYO" "FIVE YEARS AGO, THE EMURA HOME" "I'm back" "You're back?" "We're sorry" "Busy at school, weren't you?" "Wasn't the train crowded?" "Where's Toshio?" "Kikuya in Niigata saw him and sent us this letter" "In Niigata?" "Is he alone?" "With a girl" "What's the idea?" "I don't know" "He's old enough to know better, the fool!" "The woman's fooling him" "He was always so timid" "Here he was respected!" "What can he do alone?" "Becoming a pimp!" "What do you intend to do?" "Minako wants to go and see him" "We want you to go with her" "An assistant can take a few days off?" "Please go with me" "NIIGATA, NORTHERN JAPAN" "That room upstairs" "What now?" "Shall I go first?" "Going?" "The woman's out" "I'll wait here" "Thank you" "Nice to see you" "Cold, isn't it?" "Warm yourself" "Like some coffee?" "Sozo gave me the works" "Father and Mother must be mad too" "I'm sorry about it" "I'll send the divorce paper" "Set your seal to it" "I wanted to see for myself" "I'm going home" "Better shave if you've a razor" "Minako!" "Let's go" "Minakami soon" "The train stops for one minute" "Sozo" "Let's get off at the next station" "MINAKAMI HOT SPRING RESORT" "I've parted with your brother" "I knew that was best when I saw his room" "So I'm not your sister in law any more" "You're not my brother in law" "Can I come in?" "Since then, I thought a lot about you" "I heard you'd married and gone to Shikoku a year and a half later" "Such a far away place, I thought" "To start all over again" "Did you succeed?" "I'm not sure" "I had a feeling we'd meet again" "But I was so surprised" "With your wife" "Perhaps I can see you again next month" "Why?" "I'm going to Okayama" "Really?" "Excavation with Okayama University" "In January?" "Middle of the month" "I see..." "What's the matter?" "Aren't you happy?" "It's been once in 3 months until now we needn't even wait a month" "Why do you look like that?" "What shall I say to leave home?" "You must do something" "I suppose so" "When I know for sure, I'll phone your shop" "There's an alumnae meeting this month" "I'm asked to come no matter what" "Too much trouble" "What shall I do?" "Why don't you go all dressed up?" "A woman's party must be an eyeful" "Why?" "Women are concerned with what's outside and not inside" "Are they?" "I hear you're becoming the next president" "Yes, but it's a difficult age" "I'm not too happy about it" "Your becoming Asst Professor is much more certain" "I asked Prof. Shiokawa's help" "Thank you, sir" "Your speaking for me encourages me" "A gift but you can have it" "Thank you, sir" "Going to Okayama?" "Yes, to excavate ancient relics" "If it's a festival site of the middle Yayoi Age..." "It'll be a help in my thesis" "It's your chance, so do your best" "Can I go, too, if it's only for a few days?" "No, you can't" "But the doctor says I'm in excellent health" "I won't lose it" "No" "This time, your mother and I want to hold our grandchild" "Lose him, and I'll ask Sozo to father a child elsewhere" "Find another woman" "And I'll ask Father not to let you stay at the university" "Look, Sozo turned green" "Ruins in the highlands had paddles in front" "This high site without plains is rare without plains is rare" "Professor!" "Please come!" "Find something?" "We found a human skeleton" "Human skeleton?" "Sure?" "Yes, sir" "All right, let's take a look" "WOMAN'S SKELETON, LOVE TRIANGLE?" "They're digging up old tombs in Okayama" "A woman's skeleton" "It seems like murder" "If you're eating at home, phone and order from Uokyu" "I put out your electric blanket" "Thanks" "The cab's here" "I'll be going then" "Goodbye" "Oh, yes" "Where do I get in touch with you if anything comes up?" "I almost forgot" "The Himeji telephone number" "Yoshinoya Inn" "I'm going" "Take care" "Yoshinoya Inn, Kasuga cho, Himeji City" "Yoshinoya Inn" "KURASHIKI, LARGE TEXTILE CITY" "Afraid you wouldn't come" "Why?" "I thought I heard you say so last time" "What'd your husband say?" "Nothing, particularly" "That lighter" "Your wife's gift?" "I bought it with my bonus" "What'd you say to leave home?" "You want to stay in Matsuyama?" "You want it that way too?" "A bad man and a bad woman?" "Wait a minute" "I'll change clothes" "I was worried when I read the paper" "About the skeleton?" "I thought you might not come" "It doesn't concern me" "Any clues to who she is?" "It's just known that she's a young woman" "Trouble of lovers?" "Perhaps so" "I wish I were loved enough to be killed" "How would it feel to be killed by the man one loves?" "She may have been happy to die" "When a man and woman kill, it's not for money or honor, something stronger" "If I said I wanted you to kill me, what would you do?" "Want me to?" "Kill me" "Harder!" "Harder!" "What's the matter?" "Know him?" "I felt I did" "Can't take walks then" "I wish we'd gone to Hokkaido instead" "People from your place go there too" "Prepared I thought but I feel guilty" "Prepared?" "I thought I didn't care if people saw us" "If someone told your husband about it?" "Then he's know I'm alive" "Want to tell him?" "There are times when I do" "You said it's a class meeting?" "He may know" "Really" "I gave him a wrong telephone number" "If he checks, he'd find out" "Why'd you do that?" "Hello, is this the Yoshinoya Inn in Himeji?" "What?" "The Toyo Trading Company?" "It's not an inn?" "Is your telephone number" "Himeji 5-2638?" "Thank you very much" "Master, your wife's a terrible woman" "Why?" "She thinks nothing of lying" "I phoned Himeji" "There isn't any Yoshinoya Inn" "What does she think she's doing?" "A childish lie like that" "That's enough" "No, it isn't" "Blowing your breath on me" "You're so stiff though" "You're like a goby" "SHIMOTSUI SETO INLAND SEA" "What?" "I'm afraid." "I can't walk" "Idiot." "It's nothing" "No, no!" "Stop it!" "You said a place where no one came" "See?" "Not dangerous at all" "It's dangerous!" "Come back at once!" "If you love me, come this far" "You say that but...!" "Then you lied?" "You're cruel!" "Now, come on!" "Dangerous, wasn't it?" "You're mean!" "I'm sorry" "It's acrophobia" "I didn't know that" "I always think this..." "When I die, I'll fall from a cliff like I'm flying through the air" "More and more like a kid each time I see you" "But if I'd fallen, what would you have done?" "I'd have jumped down too" "I wonder" "It's true" "I wish I had" "Idiot!" "ONOMICHI, BUS Y SHIPPING CENTER" "I'll bring tea right away" "Leaving tomorrow?" "Time?" "Taking a hovercraft at 9," "I'll reach Matsuyama at 11" "Two days fled by" "I'd wish I said a week's meeting" "Joking?" "I have to return to submit my thesis" "If we overdo it, it won't last" "Yes" "Let's go to the harbor" "Harbor?" "To see the ship you're taking" "What is it?" "I feel lonely all of a sudden" "You're silly" "One ticket to Imabari" "Aren't you Masayo?" "Imagine seeing you!" "Going home?" "Yes, I am" "Please lend me your camera!" "This?" "I won't be but a minute!" "What's the matter?" "You've no appetite" "Let's stay one more day" "No?" "There's my thesis" "It's just a day!" "You will?" "I haven't enough money" "Money?" "If it's money, I have it!" "See?" "I brought it" "This is quite enough." "You will?" "If my thesis goes well tonight" "I'm so happy!" "You're awake?" "Were you able to work?" "No" "What are you looking at?" "The ship sailing to Imabari" "You're worried about Matsuyama too?" "No, I'm not!" "It's for the woman in the Chrysanthemum Room" "Chrysanthemum Room?" "It's important." "Don't lose it" "Where are we going today?" "Some place where we've never been before?" "Go from Fukuyama to Tomo?" "We can go to Sensui Island from Tomo" "I hear it's beautiful" "You don't care for islands?" "What are you thinking about?" "No!" "Don't think about wok now!" "What're you doing?" "Stop it!" "I'm sorry" "You shouldn't have done it" "If I sail now," "I can reach Matsuyama at the time I said" "Excuse me" "I'll go and see" "From the guest in the Plum Room" "Who is it?" "Your friend, she said" "She left a little while ago" "Thanks" "TOMO  SENSUI ISLAND" "You know now, Master?" "Know what?" "This is Mrs. Nishida" "Her face isn't clear but the suit's your birthday present" "Same suits everywhere" "How about this one?" "You can see her face better" "It's not Minako" "You still doubt me?" "Phone the Kinkaen Inn in Onomichi then" "What do I ask?" "Do I ask if my wife's having an affair?" "Don't do this again!" "You say that but she won't return!" "She will." "She's not a child!" "I wrote her a letter!" "What sort of letter?" "You can go home now if you like" "Master..." "Master, do you hate me so much?" "I think only for you!" "If what you say is true," "Minako is a bad wife to me" "But no one can say that it's bad for her" "I could take a print of s fish and hang it up but she's not a fish" "Don't say anything and welcome her when she returns" "Hello, Mother?" "It's me, Sozo" "No." "I'm sorry I made you worry" "Yes, I'm fine" "Is Sachiko over there?" "Thank you" "Hello." "It's me" "I'll be home a day late" "Yes, I know." "Goodbye" "How much is it?" "Wait a minute, please" "I'll pay it." "How much?" "No, I'll pay it!" "I have that much!" "It's 960 yen" "Let's go" "What's up?" "Let's part here." "It's better to" "You leave first" "I was wrong" "I can take a plane home tomorrow" "After I buy a plane ticket for Itami, we'll go to a spa" "Come along" "Shall we go?" "Never mind" "Shouldn't you send a telegram home?" "What shall I say?" "Returning tomorrow" "That's so" "From the train" "The meeting's in Himeji" "That's right" "Wait a second" "OSAKA AIRPORT" "Any small money?" "No change" "No, I don't have any small money" "Any to Matsuyama at 10 tomorrow?" "One moment, please" "One seat available" "One ticket for Tokyo at 10:30 or 11 o'clock" "Please fill this out" "12,000 yen, sir?" "400 yen change." "Thank you" "Say, Emura!" "No need to rush to buy a ticket" "One leaving every 30 minutes" "I happened to come here" "I see." "Where are you staying?" "In Kyoto" "Kyoto?" "I just checked out of the Kokusai Hotel" "You?" "I haven't decided yet" "I'll decide in Kyoto" "If you'll excuse me" "I saw a half a dozen artists in Kyoto" "I got tired flattering them" "You're lucky" "Your work's with dead people" "If it isn't Mrs. Nishida!" "Why, Mr. Hase" "It's been some time" "It's been quite a while" "Osaka today?" "Yes, some business..." "I'm in a hurry, so..." "Say, wait, Emura!" "He's a funny fellow" "Meeting a lot of people today" "Waiting for someone?" "No" "Is your husband well?" "Yes, thank you" "Still fishing?" "Some tea?" "Not yet?" "What were you doing?" "How'd you know him?" "At the university" "How'd you know him?" "In the same kind of work" "His family runs a haberdashery?" "Yes" "Where to now?" "I had Arima spa in mind but can't go there but can't go there" "It's crowded there, so we may meet someone" "Driver, do you know a quiet place near here?" "HORAIKYO, NATIONAL PARK" "Can't find a quieter place" "What'll you do?" "Excuse me!" "Have you a room?" "Are you alone?" "No, with a companion" "Please come in" "Haven't you changed yet?" "I don't think he knows about us" "He was always quick to catch on" "He didn't say anything to me" "He's like that!" "There's no use thinking about it" "Listening to you and staying another day caused it!" "Why take out seeing him on me?" "Think of my position!" "If he finds out...!" "What happens then?" "He's a reporter" "If my father in law finds out, it'd foul up my promotion!" "You too!" "He may write to your husband!" "I can't help it if he does" "The guts of a woman at a time like this!" "Excuse me" "Something to drink?" "No!" "I'll have beer" "I won't depend on you anymore!" "I'll leave Nishida and live alone!" "Go ahead!" "Yes, I will!" "I know now what you're like!" "How fine are you then?" "You made the move at Minakami" "It was the same when we met 11.5 years later in Tokyo!" "If you hadn't phoned, this wouldn't have happened!" "You're cruel!" "I asked you once what I was to you" "What am I anyway?" "In those days, I didn't know how I felt" "But I can clearly say now that I love you with all my heart" "Honeyed words" "Your life's an uneventful one, so you just wanted some excitement!" "That's...!" "I'm pregnant" "I didn't think I'd hear those words from you" "What do you mean?" "A ruse woman often use" "How do you know it's mine or your husband's?" "Saying that to the woman you loved 3 years?" "You don't know!" "No, I don't know" "You've no idea of our married life" "But if I told you, you'd make it an excuse?" "I couldn't possibly have his child" "Are you saying he's impotent?" "You can't fool me with your words!" "Get this clear!" "I won't give up my wife or promotion!" "And sacrifice myself to your daydreams!" "You can't abandon Matsuyama either" "You don't know me at all!" "No, I don't!" "A woman like you...!" "Shall I prove it to you then?" "Long distance, please" "Matsuyama 4 14 17 8" "Stop it!" "Don't be crazy!" "Who's crazy?" "You said to do it!" "No, a mistake" "I'll go home tomorrow and start divorce proceedings" "Then I'll bear your child" "Will that do?" "You get a divorce in Tokyo too!" "Look!" "Say something" "Sozo" "I was wrong" "Are you still angry?" "You're to blame, too, saying things like that" "I didn't mean to mention it in that way either" "But understand that" "I want the child" "It's my first child" "Are you listening, Sozo?" "I won't return to my home in Matsuyama" "I confess I wavered until now" "But I won't fool myself anymore!" "The time you leave me will be the time I die" "Let's bathe together" "You've become skinny" "Have I?" "Shall we die together?" "I'm so happy" "I'm ready to die any time" "I was only joking" "There's no sense in dying" "Instead, I'll teach in the country" "Let's live modestly, shall we?" "Don't abandon me!" "Don't leave me!" "I needn't go back to Matsuyama now?" "No, you needn't" "A WOMAN'S SKELETON DISCOVERED" "Sozo!" "Do you know where my companion is?" "Companion?" "He went toward Horaikyo, his face white as a sheet" "Guest!" "Sozo!" "Sozo!" "What happened?" "Where were you?" "You're bleeding" "Where were you?" "I woke early." "I took a walk in the garden" "In the garden?" "You didn't climb the mountain?" "Why would I go to Horaikyo alone?" "Let's have the cuts tended to" "Now, you're all right" "You really didn't go to Horaikyo?" "Why do you ask so many times?" "I said I didn't go and I didn't!" "What is it?" "No spirit at all" "Hurry and eat" "Then let's go and see the sights" "Sozo, where's your lighter?" "I think I forgot it somewhere" "In the taxicab?" "You used it last night" "When I went for a walk then" "Does it matter?" "If you're not going to eat, shall we be going?" "Since we're here, shall we go to Horaikyo?" "We've plenty of time" "I'm afraid" "Acrophobia?" "Don't worry." "I'm with you" "There's an interesting place archaeologically" "Come along" "I'm asking you, yet you won't come?" "What you said last night were lies?" "You said you'd follow me anywhere!" "What's the matter?" "What're you afraid of?" "I see." "All right, I'll go alone" "I don't know when we'll meet again though" "You don't care?" "Thank you very much" "I forgot something" "I'm going to the mountain" "See you" "Please take me along too" "Kill me!" "Kill me!" "Why don't you push me down?" "You're here to watch my feet slip and fall from the cliff?" "I knew you were trying to kill me!" "I found your lighter here!" "Kill me!" "Kill me!" "I don't want to live any longer!" "I want to die by your hands!" "I really loved you!" "No!" "I won't do it!" "I won't kill you!" "I don't want to become involved with you and ruin my whole life!" "You've used me!" "To live and to die!" "I won't!" "I won't let you use me anymore!" "What's your name?" "Address?" "You?" "Nishinomiya" "Name?" "Eto" "Any easy case to crack"