“The Promise” - a short story published for the first time in Russian - is the same deep study of a troubled heart, the story of immortal love that conquers time... An elderly tycoon hires a young secretary, a man of modest income, but surprisingly charming and worthy. The tycoon's young wife had never met such a man before. A feeling flares up. The secretary responds to her with sincere reciprocity. But each of the heroes has already made a promise. The war begins, and the story of the heroes becomes even more complicated...