"He's not a bad boy," Sastuki said to her husband.
"No one ever said he was," Eitaro countered. "He's just not right for Anko, even if they can get married now. She'd be disgraced. He will take her away from us forever. We need to stop this nonsense right now."
"It isn't as bad as we feared," Satsuki repeated. "Kiyo heard them talking in the garden. From what Kiyo heard him say, he isn't in any position to marry for many years, and he knows it. That alone means we don't have to interfere. He seems respectable, and that makes him harmless.
"But there are other reasons to let this continue," she went on. "The Westerners want something we have right here, in this district, but we don't know what it is. We need to find out and take control of it. We cannot alienate them now," she finished,
