Dream Of A Spring Night (Hollow Reed Series) - Plot & Excerpts
When the tall young man came in, her first reaction was disappointment. He was too soberly dressed — in dark grey silk brocade with a small white pattern — and he wore an ordinary cap. Surely, she thought, a message from the Emperor would be brought by an official in court costume or a senior officer of the guard. The young man approached, bowed, then seated himself on the cushion she gestured to. She guessed his age to be about twenty-five. He had a nice face, clean-shaven and a little too long and thin, but his eyes were large and gentle, and stirred a memory. She was still searching his features, when he addressed her. “My name is Yamada Sadahira, Lady Oba,” he said. “My people are by way of being former neighbors of yours. And since I planned to pay them a visit, the Lady Toshiko asked me to stop here on my way to make sure that you are well. She has suffered from bad dreams and was worried about your health.” Lady Oba’s heart began to beat so she barely heard the end of his speech. Of course. This must be his son. Her eyes searched the young face again and found there, after so many years, the faint image of the man who had courted her, who had sought in vain to marry her — and she tasted again the bitter despair of her youth. There were differences, of course. Sadamori had looked fiercer than his son. When she had been scarcely older than Toshiko, she had loved this fierceness and his protectiveness of her. But her family had promised her to Oba Hiramoto. A woman’s duty is obedience, and she had obeyed and become an obedient wife to a man she cared little about.
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