The narrator tells the reader that she's already decided that it's "too late for love" . She tells the audience that she and her husband have decided not to continue their relationship. The narrator explains that she was once in love with a man named Saeki at a company called "mori design." The man dumped her, and she gave birth to a baby boy. She left the company because she found out about the man's affair through a detective. She was shocked to learn that the man was a woman of lower social rank than she was, and so she quit the company and told the man about it. He was kind to her at first, but when he found out that she had a husband, she cried. She's glad that she didn't have to break up with the man, because she'd never have wanted to become like him.