Alice tells her mistress that she can't stay in the house any longer because she finally found her lover. The mistress tells her that it's okay to be a maiko in this world, but that she must stop lying to herself. If she keeps lying, her body will age, and she'll be cast off of this world like an old woman. Alice asks if she can get advice from the mistress, but the mistress says that she doesn't know anything about the world, and that she's afraid that there's nothing she can do for her now. She suggests that they go to an inn to spend the night, and the mistress tells them to hurry up so they can leave. She also tells them that they can write down all the names of their guests in the inn's ledger, and then they can go home.