The maid, Akitaka, is soaking wet from the rain. She tells her husband to go ahead, but not to worry, because she's about to grind his fingers. She knocks the bell off so he can't hear her, and she apologizes that she bothered him. She says that she doesn't look down on her husband or servants, but that she is the one who's "the least suited" for her husband. He's a "true member of nobility" , she says, and that's why she treated him so well. He says that he'll take good care of his wife from here on, and he's counting on her to do the same. He calls her "akitaka sera" and says that her name is the important one that Mas ter Masaomi chose for her. She begs him not to call her "any thing else" ever again.