He sends her a poem about the robes which looks like a cast-off skin of a woman, while Utsusemi secretly laments her insecure circumstances that she cannot accept Genji's love.
源氏は女の抜け殻のような衣にことよせて空蝉へ歌を送り、空蝉も源氏の愛を受けられない己の境遇のつたなさを密かに嘆いた。