Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. However, she becomes enamoured with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono himself is bound by an engagement to Sayoko, daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue.

Tomotaka Inoue
Land owner
Fujio Kono
Hajime Munechika
Asai
Itoko
Kingo Kono
Munechika's father
Seizo Ono
Fujio's mother
Sayako Inoue