The narrator tells the story of a woman who is thirty years old and wants a boyfriend, but she has no suitors. She meets a man who looks like a "loyal and considerate" man, and she decides to marry him. She goes to her best friend for advice, but the friend remains silent for long periods of time. The narrator says that he has loved her for over a decade, and that he would choose the woman in the story. She is the shopkeeper in the store where he used to work, and though she likes her friend, she chose the man, like you. He says that two women are bound to be in a relationship, and it is clear that she doesn't even love the man.