It would seem that the marriage proposal has been made. The whole office is witness to this. And Masha Koshkina’s most important wish—to be next to Nikolai Goncharov, an experienced, handsome, successful man—came true. Rejoice, put the bird of happiness in a golden cage and whistle a duet with it! But these are not good times for Masha. Each new stage in her relationship with Nikolai revealed to her a side of life that she, a romantic girl, had no idea about. How can she, the daughter of ordinary doctors, fit into the circle of a groom who belongs to a completely different social class? How to learn to discuss a problem, and not hide from it like an ostrich? How to deal with jealousy? How to preserve your will when you so want to submit and dissolve in the power of the most beautiful of men?