Nana’s beauty captured my heart the moment I laid eyes on her.
Though her naïveté was so apparent, I fell in love with her.
I perceived that it was going to be very difficult to win her love,
But I had a feeling that I could somehow accomplish it.
She and I got along very well, but that was not enough to satisfy me.

I urgently needed a nice wife, and she was suitable for me.
When I asked her to marry me, she quickly rejected my proposal.
She said that she did not have romantic feelings for me.
I could not believe she said no without hesitation, and I felt so hurt.
In sadness, I walked away without saying another word.

Knowing Nana, she could not have meant what she said,
But it did not occur to me that she was hiding her real feelings for me.
She had not been intimate with any man, just as it seemed.
Furthermore, she did not know how to express her love.
I should have kept wooing her, but I made no further advances to her.

We later developed an unexpected closeness with each other.
Much to my surprise, she started to show her love for me.
I regretted my past decision not to give her more time to mature.
The love affair had no problems except a major setback.
I could not fulfil my desire to marry her, for I was already married.