Chapter 35
One evening in the winter of the following year, Rachel stood by the road waiting for Taishi as he made his way home. She was the Snow Woman and was a demon.
To her surprise, she had never forgotten the gentle young man although she had toyed with many other men since having had him.
Finally, she saw Taishi and found him even more sensual and arousing than she had a year earlier. As he passed, she fell into step beside him. She had left behind the Snow Woman's white kimono, and appeared as a young peasant close to him in age.
When he asked her name, she replied, O-Yuki, which meant snow. She told him she was an orphan, on her way to Edo to find work. Taishi was immediately charmed, and the more that he looked at her, more beautiful he seemed to find her.
He asked her whethe
