![]() ![]() I saw that he had no ties of any kind with the other people staying there. He was not staying at an ordinary inn, but had his rooms in a mansion-like building within the grounds of a large temple. That evening, I visited Sensei at his lodgings. I, who had taken so much trouble to join my friend, was left alone. It was, however, clear that if his mother was truly ill, he should go home. He showed me the telegram, and asked me what he should do. It was in order to avoid an unpleasant situation that instead of going home, as he normally would have done, he had gone to the resort near Tokyo to spend his holidays. Moreover, he was not in the least fond of the girl. According to our modern outlook, he was really too young to marry. ![]() For some time his parents had been trying to persuade him, much against his will, to marry a certain girl. My friend, however, did not believe this. ![]() His mother, the telegram explained, was ill. It had taken me a few days to get together enough money to cover the necessary expenses, and it was only three days after my arrival that my friend received a telegram from home demanding his return. ![]() I went there at the insistence of a friend of mine, who had gone to Kamakura to swim. It was at Kamakura, during the summer holidays, that I first met Sensei. ![]()
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