The scene opens with the narrator lamenting the fact that his younger colleague, Touma, is "too unfriendly" and that he will "put it inside" of her. He tells her to "turn sorry" and to "smile sorry for saying" . He then tells her not to feel awkward and not to cry. He wants to leave her alone, but he is afraid that she will see him pass by. He tries to ignore her, but she will not allow him to do so. He asks her why she called out to him, and she tells him that she did not want to bother the young man. He says that he knew he would reject her anyway, and that she was also a hypocrite who pretended to be admirable. The narrator tells Touma that he had hoped that something would happen between them, but that he was not himself today. He admits that he made her cry, and he says that she is the same way as all the other people he thought he had a chance of stealing away from. He goes on to say that he always had a "little hope" of something happening between them. When she fell asleep, she mumbled that she had never loved why he would not run away. He feels tired and wants to go home. He wonders why he brought her to his house, and wonders if he is an idiot for bringing her there. He also wonders how he fell in love with her, when it hurts him so much