In the presence of imotoama and others who attended her, she stubbornly shut her mind, told nothing about her conditions and spent the day doing Tenarai (writing practice) in a pensive mood.
世話を焼く妹尼たちの前ではかたくなに心を閉ざし、身の上も語らず、物思いに沈んでは手習にしたためて日を過ごした。