Setsuko is a very different sort of woman from Enoshi’s mistress, neither
exotic nor the least bit foreign. She is, rather, as familiar and as comfortable 
as one person could possibly be for another. She is quiet and persevering, his 
wife and the mother of his children, a trusted and devoted partner whom he would 
not forsake for anyone or anything. His love for her is more than love, physical 
love, more than infatuation. It is the sort of love that will certainly hold the 
two of them together for the rest of their lives.