Then Suzuki helps Butterfly dress for her wedding night.

Suzuki kneels in front of a Buddha, praying that Butterfly will stop crying.

Suzuki tells Butterfly that their money has almost run out and, if Pinkerton does not return quickly, they will suffer in a bad way.

Butterfly assures Suzuki that Pinkerton will return, because he took care to arrange for the Consul to pay the rent and to fit the house with locks to keep out the mosquitoes, relatives and troubles.

Suzuki tells Butterfly that foreign husbands never return to their Japanese wives, but Butterfly replies furiously that Pinkerton had assured her, on the very last morning they were together, " Oh, Butterfly, my little wife, I shall return with the roses, when the earth is full of joy, when the robin makes his nest.

" Butterfly promises Suzuki that this will happen.

" Butterfly looks at Suzuki and says, " I don ’ t remember him?

Butterfly is upset with Sharpless and instructs Suzuki to show him out.

" Suzuki enters, pulling Goro with her, and she tells Butterfly, " He buzzes around, the snake.

Suzuki and Butterfly watch from the hill as the ship enters the harbor and drops anchor.

Then Butterfly sees that the ship is the Abraham Lincoln, and she tells Suzuki, " They were all lying!

" Butterfly tells Suzuki to gather all the flowers.

Finally, Butterfly sits at her dressing table and tells Suzuki, " Now, come and adorn me.

" Butterfly dons the same dress that she wore as a bride, while Suzuki dresses her child.

Butterfly tells Suzuki that she wants Pinkerton to see her dressed as she was on the first day " and a red poppy in my hair.

As the off-stage chorus hums a wordless, melancholy tune, Butterfly, her child and Suzuki begin the long wait for Pinkerton to come.

Suzuki and the baby are soon asleep, but Butterfly keeps her vigil.

Suzuki and the baby are asleep, but Butterfly remains standing and waiting.

Pinkerton and Sharpless have arrived, but Pinkerton tells Suzuki not to wake Butterfly and asks how Butterfly knew that Pinkerton had arrived.

Suzuki tells him that, for the last three years, Butterfly has studied every ship that entered the port.

While Pinkerton looks at the flowers, the picture of himself and the room that has remained unchanged for three years, Sharpless tells Suzuki that they can do nothing for Butterfly but that they must help her child.

Sharpless tells Pinkerton that he heard Butterfly speak, when she visited the Consulate, and he asks Pinkerton not to pluck off her delicate wings.

Butterfly greets Pinkerton, who asks about her difficult climb up the hill.

" Butterfly asks him, " When do the robins make their nests in America?

Butterfly sees Yamadori and asks him if he is not going to give up pursuing her, because " You have already had many different wives.

" Sharpless asks her gently, " Butterfly, what would you do if he never returned?

Butterfly shows Sharpless her child, and Sharpless asks if Pinkerton knows.

" Butterfly kneels in front of her son and asks him, " Do you know that that gentleman had dared to think that your mother would take you in her arms and walk to town, through the wind and rain, to earn your bread and clothes.

Sharpless asks the child his name, and Butterfly answers for him, " Today my name is Sorrow.

Butterfly realizes that she must give up her son, and Kate asks her forgiveness.

Meanwhile, Butterfly tells her relatives how much she loves Pinkerton.

Butterfly tells Pinkerton that yesterday, in secret and without telling her uncle, who is a Buddhist priest, the Bonze, she went to the Consulate, where she abandoned her ancestral religion and converted to Pinkerton ’ s religion.

Pinkerton watches Butterfly, as she watches him, but her happiness is tempered, as " still the angry voice curses me.

" Butterfly replies that she does not want to say the words, " for fear of dying at hearing them!

When he arrives, he will call " Butterfly " from a distance, but she will not answer, partly for fun and partly not to die from the excitement of the first meeting.

At this, Butterfly hears Goro laugh, and she whispers to Sharpless that Goro is a bad man.

Goro tells Sharpless that Butterfly thinks that she is still married.

" Sharpless continues, " If she still loves me, if she awaits me, I place myself in your hands so that you may carefully and considerately prepare her …" Butterfly exclaims, " He is coming!

Butterfly cries that, if Pinkerton never returned, she would go back to entertaining people with her songs, or, better, die.

Later in the decade she performed in several operas, including La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Orpheus in the Underworld and La traviata.

Grayson had a lifelong dream of being an opera star, and she appeared in a number of operas in the 1960s, such as La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Orpheus in the Underworld and La traviata.

As of 2009, she has been at work on an EP, titled My Journey to Fearless: The Black Butterfly.

Another prominent African-American, the film actress Thelma ( Butterfly ) McQueen, moved with her family from her birthplace of Tampa, Florida to live on Cottage Row in Babylon, where she went on to graduate from Babylon High School and then pursued her acting career before later attending several universities and attaining a degree in political science.

* Julia Butterfly Hill, an activist in Humboldt County, California became known for her 738 day sit ( from December 10, 1997 until December 18, 1999 ) in a, 600-year-old Coast Redwood tree she named Luna.

In Obsidian Butterfly she is also studying Kenpo Karate.