Before the narrator left his father-in-laws house, he stopped by to say goodbye to little 10-year-old Resi Noth. He tells Resi that he is going to the front lines of the war to fight the Russians. She tells him he will probably die, and they will never see each other again. Since that is the case, Resi finds it appropriate to tell the narrator that she loves him... like really loves him. She tells him that she was so jealous of Helga when they would come there together. Now, since she has been dead, Resi has been having dreams about growing up to marry the narrator.
The narrator has known for a while that his father-in-law was dead. The detective agency he hired to find out about Helga told him of the news......
