Driven mad by the loss of her young son, possibly abducted as a
boy prostitute, the heroine is urged in a dream to seek him at Miidera temple. There the woman is much impressed by the temple bell, and recounts a long list of episodes involving temple bells. When she finally draws attention to herself by striking the bell, she is recognised by and reunited with her son - the
aesthete Oswald Valentine Sickert considering that "The sounding of the bell is the hinge of everything, a thing of great sentiment". ==Literary links==