The scene opens with a flashback to the beginning of the novel, where the narrator is caught up in the "love trap" of a "scripted marriage." He has just finished up at work and is about to pick up Mitsuru when he runs into an actress named "kawa . . who is an actress" . The actress asks the narrator to meet her for dinner, but the narrator refuses, saying that she is too busy with her work to spend time with her husband. She then asks the actress if she prefers to be called "a husband as well" , and the actress replies that she does not. The narrator tells the actress that she has been able to return home recently and that hearing her call her husband has made her happy, but he is still working hard at his job. He tells her that he has been "greedy and impulsive" in the past, and that he is looking forward to the time when he will be able to spend more time with his wife. The woman then asks him if satisfied, and he says that he was "really greedy and impulsive." She then tells him that she had been waiting for him for the entire time.