When Goro leaves, Sharpless asks Pinkerton if he is really in love.

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

" She turns sharply and asks Sharpless, " Am I correct?

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

" She asks Sharpless to write and tell him that his son waits for him.

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

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

She asks Suzuki why she is crying, and then she sees Sharpless and the woman in the garden.

Pinkerton admits to Sharpless that he does not know whether he is really in love or just infatuated, but he is bewitched with Butterfly ’ s innocence, charm and beauty, like a butterfly fluttering around and then landing with silent grace, so beautiful " that I must have her, even though I injure her butterfly wings ".

Butterfly tells Pinkerton and Sharpless that her family is from Nagasaki and was once very wealthy.

Sharpless greets her, " Excuse me, Madam Butterfly.

" Sharpless draws a letter from his pocket and tells her, " Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton has written to me.

" Sharpless tells her that Pinkerton is perfectly well, and she says, " I am the happiest woman in Japan.

" The question confuses Sharpless, so Butterfly explains that Pinkerton promised to return to her " when the robin builds his nest again.

" Sharpless, mortified, tells her that he does not know because he has not studied ornithology.

Sharpless begins to read Pinkerton ’ s letter to Butterfly: " My friend, will you find that lovely flower of a girl …" Butterfly cannot control her happiness, as he continues, " since that happy times, three years have passed, and Butterfly perhaps does not remember me anymore.

" 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!

Sharpless pleads with her to accept the rich offer from Yamadori.

" Suzuki sees a strange woman in the garden, learns from Sharpless that she is Pinkerton ’ s American wife and collapses to her knees in shock.

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 her that Pinkerton ’ s new wife, Kate, wants to care for the child.

She then visits the American consul in Nagasaki, Mr. Sharpless, in an attempt to allay her fears and ask his help in getting Pinkerton to return.

As her story unfolds, Sharpless feels increasing contempt for Pinkerton.

Sharpless gently tells her that he could not take part in such a deception encourages her to accept Yamadori's offer and reconcile with her family.

Distraught, she visits Sharpless to ask if he had written Pinkerton and why he has left without seeing her.

To spare her feelings, Sharpless tells her that he had indeed written Pinkerton who was on his way to see her but had many duties to perform, and then his ship was suddenly ordered to China.

However, Pinkerton tells Sharpless that he will do " no great harm, even if Butterfly falls in love.

" Goro re-enters to tell Pinkerton and Sharpless that Butterfly ’ s friends are coming.

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

In the meantime, Sharpless gives up trying to read Pinkerton ’ s letter to Butterfly, and he puts the letter back in his pocket.

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

Yamadori, Sharpless and Goro quietly discuss Butterfly ’ s blindness.

Goro whispers that Pinkerton ’ s ship is expected to arrive soon, and Sharpless explains that Pinkerton is too embarrassed to meet Butterfly and has asked Sharpless to handle it.

Sharpless remains, sits next to Butterfly, and takes the letter out of his pocket once more.

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

Sharpless tells Pinkerton, " Did I not tell you so?

Suzuki goes into the garden to meet Pinkerton ’ s new wife, while Sharpless reminds Pinkerton, " I told you, didn ’ t I?

" She kneels in front of Sharpless and says that she will never do that, " that trade which leads to dishonor.

He asks her to help him keep his job and says that he will fight desperately to keep it.

" Ruth identifies herself, then asks Boaz to spread his cloak over her.

The mood of the story is fashioned from the start through names of the participants: Naomi, which means " my gracious one " or " my delight ," later asks to be called Mara, " the bitter one "; her two sons are Mahlon, " sick ", and Chilion, " weakening " or " pining " and Orpah, meaning " mane " or " gazelle ", is from the root for " nape " or " back of the neck ", appropriate for the daughter-in-law who turns her back on Naomi and returns to her people.

At night, a desert bandit named Lo ( Chang Chen ) breaks into Jen's bedroom and asks her to leave with him.

He speaks privately with her father and only asks that Laura never be left unattended.

She goes by the name of Laura, and Integra asks her if she is the vampire Carmilla.

Magneto brings her to Xavier and asks him to use his mental powers to help her.

When Elijah finds her and asks to be fed, she says that she does not have sufficient food to keep her and her own son alive.

Montag then asks Mildred about Clarisse and her whereabouts.

Thor asks Freyja if she will lend him her cloak of feathers, so that he may try to find his hammer.

On the way, Elin shares her real feelings about being trapped in Åmål, and asks Agnes about being a lesbian, and believes that both of their problems could be solved by leaving Åmål and going to Stockholm.

Desperate to avoid a possible murder in college, Harriet asks her old friend Wimsey to investigate.

Rhett sarcastically asks her if the father is Ashley.

When she desperately asks to hear the last words Kurtz said, Marlow tells her that his last words was her name.

The goddess Frigg asks who among the Æsir will earn " all her love and favour " by riding to Hel, the location, to try to find Baldr, and offer Hel herself a ransom.

He then asks whether he can trust her, and, though she answers in the affirmative, he says he doesn't believe her any more.

" In a letter to Susan Koppelman, Russ asks of a young feminist critic " where is her anger?

The two then go to the court of the goddess Freyja, and Thor asks her if he may borrow her feather cloak so that he may attempt to find Mjöllnir.