The narrator, who is a former delinquent farmer, is now happily married to a young woman named "Chiaki." The narrator tells the girl that she is a "lovely girl friend" and that she will soon be his "best friend." The girl asks the narrator to tell her the story of his love for her. The narrator says that he came back to his home at first because he thought the town was full of "scarecrows" and he was sure that "he cheated on her." When he was drunk, the narrator says, he told the girl some of the things he had heard about her and the girl thought he was "scarier" and "not very talkative." When the narrator was drunk again, he says, the girl said he was a "rogant and intimidating" man. The girl thinks he is "reas a really easy person" to talk to, but the narrator thinks that her hip has gotten messed up. The two of them are going to take the girl's vegetables to their children's school, and the narrator is "happy with just you, chiaki."