The narrator meets an attractive woman while studying in the school garden. They begin dating, but she asks him for money and is secretive about her job. After they marry, she leaves late at night smelling of fish, cigars, and alcohol. Suspicious of her strange behaviors, like installing a mirror above their bed and pipes in the bathroom, the narrator follows her to a nightclub one evening. There he discovers his heart is broken - his wife is dancing and making strange moves as a blonde, revealing she had been lying to him about who she really was.