The round trip ought to take as much as half a year. His departure was arranged for around the middle of the 11th month, and he accordingly set out at that time to travel by cart on the overland route. It's most unbecoming. Tell your mistress in the future to find her a skirt of some other color that will match better. I told him that the Violet skirt was one you had borrowed from me. He opened up the clothes cabinet, just now, and took out this bolt of silk which he sent me to give you in order to make into a skirt. What then? You have nothing to worry about. Father also said that if you go along with him in this matter he'll buy you whatever you want. What do you think? On hearing this proposition the woman smiled slightly but did not immediately say anything.