There were a soldier and a novelist. Although the soldier was living in a battlefield where nobody had foresight about his/her life, his heart was warm all the time. The soldier could maintain a well-balanced mind from novels of a woman novelist. Before he took part in a battle, he read her books. He could make determination he would be back alive through her books. Whenever he accomplished his duty of the battle, he exchanged letters with the woman writer. They evoked sympathy of each other through letters.
After five years, the soldier was discharged from military service. He really wanted to meet her, but she always refused it. She never said anything about her appearance and even age. She only said, "I look ugly, and you will be disappointed with my appearance if you once see me." But he made constant and earnest requests to her, she finally consented to meet each other.
At the day of their appointment, he was waiting for her with her novel in his hand. She was supposed to wear a red rose to be noticed. Ten minutes earlier, the soldier arrived at the station where they had decided to meet each other. While waiting for her, he was quite distracted with imagination about her, with a leap of his heart.
In ten minutes, there was coming a beautiful woman toward him. 'There she comes,' thought he. But there was no rose on her heart. She gave him a wink as if she would give him permission to follow her. At the very moment, a woman was following her, who seemed to be at the age of late forty. She was short and stout, and everybody would notice that she was a mother of two or three children. Soon, he found the red rose on her heart. His mind was divided into two, considering two women. He was attracted by the lady who had just went passed whom he had been dreaming of. But now there was the woman in front of him, waiting for him.
He, however, liked the woman writer who had been a support of his life. He resolutely thrust the hesitation from himself, and he stepped up to her. When he spoke to her, she said, "Oh, a lady asked me to give you this red rose and let you know she will be waiting for you at a coffee shop across the street only if you talk to me." Then, the soldier ran toward the coffee shop where his loved one would be waiting for him.