 After seven years Yoko marries Masayuki, the only son in the Shigetmitsu family, finally fulfilling the desire of the Shigemitsus and Saegusas to unite through marriage.Taro eventually comes back into Fumiko and Yoko’s lives when he anonymously buys the old Oiwake villa and enlists Fumiko to renovate it.Spending a week there on vacation he is hesitant to contact Yoko, but Fumiko intervenes and the two are briefly reunited.