While reading and rating the letters, Genji could not control his attachment to Tamakazura, and one evening, he finally confided his longing for her and lay beside her.
それらの品定めをしつつ、いつか玉鬘への思慕を押さえがたくなった源氏は、ある夕暮れにとうとう想いを打ち明け側に添い臥してしまう。