He got her a pet cat to comfort himself, but he forced a court lady of Menotogo (the child of a menoto, a woman providing breast-feeding to a highborn baby) of Onna san no miya to help him and realized his desire.
その飼い猫を得て自分を慰めたものの、源氏の留守に女三宮の乳母子の女房に迫り手引きさせて思いを遂げる。