Thanks to Rei Masako and Crau-san for their reviews! You guys are awesome!
Eh, I don't like this one very much... maybe that's why I don't own Rurouni Kenshin...?
Tarry
-verb
0. To remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn.
When Kaoru-dono first invites him to stay at the dojo, Kenshin is apprehensive for a number of reasons. First, she is a single young woman, living alone, and having a single, unattached man in her house would be unseemly. He learns later that she has no reputation, or a very bad one, for being the unmarried shihandai who beat the tar out of a presumtuous former samurai in the marketplace with a bokken.
Too, he is apprehensive because he has a very poor track record with stubborn, too-kind, pretty young women. If Kaoru-dono lets him, if he lets himself, he could be very happy here.
However, for the nonce, he is tired (exhausted) and the little dojo on the edge of town with its blue-eyed mistress is a good place to rest for a while.