However, he was rejected by Ukifune, who had become a nun and had no attachment to secular society, saying 'You must have the wrong person,' and the humiliated Kaoru consoled himself by thinking 'There must be some man who is keeping her.'
しかし尼となり俗世に未練のない浮舟に「所違へにもあらむ（人違いでしょう）」と突っぱねられ、屈辱を味わった薫は「人の隠し据ゑたるにやあらん（どうせ誰か男がいて囲われているんだろう）」と自分を慰めるのであった。