In this chapter, the young woman who works in the shop is introduced to her employer, Hiroshi, and her employer's daughter, who is now living with Hiroshi. The young woman tells Hiroshi that she has come to live with him because she is in love with him and wishes to marry him. Hiroshi tells her that he does not want to marry her because he is afraid that she will leave him, but she tells him that she does not wish to marry anyone else because she wants to marry Hiroshi