“What are you talking about?” he asked, noting their smiling expressions.

Blushing like a girl, the wife looked at her husband shyly.

“We were talking about our courtship days, my son,” said Mr. Kurukawa.

“Ah,” said Gozo, very seriously, “it makes one happy to think of those times, does it?”

“Very, very happy,” said his step-mother.

Gozo sighed.

“I cannot understand why,” he said, simply.