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In the Ti Ts'ui pavilion, Pao-ch'ai diverts herself with the multi-coloured butterflies. Over the mound, where the flowers had been interred, Tai-yue bewails their withered bloom.
After a while, they parted; and when evening came Hsiang-yuen directed Ts'ui Lue to pack up her clothes. "What's the hurry?" Ts'ui Lue asked. "There will be ample time to pack up, on the day on which we go!" "We'll go to-morrow," Hsiang-yuen rejoined; "for what's the use of remaining here any longer to look at people's mouths and faces?" Pao-yue, at these words, lost no time in pressing forward.
Just as they were on the point of flying across the stream to the other side, the enticement proved too much for Pao-ch'ai, and she pursued them on tiptoe straight up to the Ti Ts'ui pavilion, nestling on the bank of the pond; while fragrant perspiration dripped drop by drop, and her sweet breath panted gently.
"Ts'ui!" ejaculated Chia Lien at these words, "because you two can't agree, must you again make a scapegoat of me! Well then, I'll get out of the way of both of you!" "I'll see where you'll go and hide," lady Feng observed. "I've got somewhere to go!" Chia Lien added; and with these words, he was about to go, when lady Feng urged: "Don't be off! I have something to tell you."
Next in order, followed dowager lady Chia's waiting-maids, Yuean Yang, Ying Wu, Hu Po, Chen Chu; Lin Tai-yue's waiting-maids Tzu Chuean, Hsueeh Yen, and Ch'un Ch'ien; Pao-ch'ai's waiting-maids Ying Erh and Wen Hsing; Ying Ch'un's servant-girls Ssu Ch'i and Hsiu Chue; T'an Ch'un's waiting-maids Shih Shu and Ts'ui Mo; Hsi Ch'un's servant-girls Ju Hua and Ts'ai P'ing; and Mrs.
"The Yin and Yang," explained Hsiang-yuen, "are no more than spirits, but anything affected by their influence at once assumes form. The heavens, for instance, are Yang, and the earth is Yin; water is Yin and fire is Yang; the sun is Yang and the moon Yin." "Quite so! quite so!" cried out Ts'ui Lue, much amused by these explanations, "I've at length attained perception!
"I was just going to tell your ladyship," she smiled, "and here you come! What a strange coincidence!" "Tell me what?" lady Feng exclaimed. "That Mr. Secundus is at home," the girl replied, "and has done so and so." She then recounted to her all the incidents recorded a few minutes back. "Ts'ui!" ejaculated lady Feng. "What were you up to before?
There only remained but Hsiang-yuen and Ts'ui Lue. "How is it," inquired Ts'ui Lue, "that these lotus flowers have not yet opened?" "The proper season hasn't yet arrived," rejoined Shih Hsiang-yuen. "They too," continued Ts'ui Lue, "resemble those in our pond; they are double flowers." "These here," remarked Hsiang-yuen, "are not however up to ours."
"What I say must be right for you to laugh in this way," Ts'ui Lue observed. "Perfectly right, perfectly right!" acquiesced Hsiang-yuen. "People say," continued Ts'ui Lue, "that masters are Yang, and that servant-girls are Yin; don't I even apprehend this primary principle?" "You apprehend it thoroughly," responded Hsiang-yuen laughingly.
"I was playing with cousin Pao-ch'ai," Chia Huan readily replied, "when Ying Erh insulted me, and deprived me of my money, and brother Pao-yue drove me away." "Ts'ui!" exclaimed Mrs. You low and barefaced thing! What place is there that you can't go to and play; and who told you to run over there and bring upon yourself all this shame?"
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