Her questions bring out half the truth; her intuition tells her the rest.

Kate (an awful blot she is on the dramatic picture) begs forgiveness and asks for the baby boy that her husband may rear him.

Butterfly says he shall have him in half an hour if he will come to fetch him.

She goes to the shrine of Buddha and takes from it a veil and a dagger, reading the words engraved on its blade: "To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor." It is the weapon which the Mikado had sent to her father.

She points the weapon at her throat, but at the moment Suzuki pushes the baby into the room.