Yozo endears himself to the bartender from Kyobashi by telling her one night that he left Shizuko for her. In response, the kind bartender lets him live in an apartment above the bar. Although he later moves out of this apartment when he gets married to Yoshiko, the bartender from Kyobashi still seems to play an important role in his life, perhaps because she feels that she has a connection to him. Years later, it’s she who receives Yozo’s notebooks in the mail—an indication that Yozo felt connected to her, too. She ends up giving the notebooks to the unnamed speaker.