Little (Blue Moon Soup Spoon) shares what is presumably her family history in this glowing romance. As it opens, an American serviceman in a crowded Japanese train tries to communicate with a proper young woman. Referring to a phrase book titled "Japanese in Thirty Days," he calls out, "I am a dancing girl" and "You see, I am a boiled pepper." This improbable beginning leads to a lengthy courtship. The serviceman gradually masters Japanese culture and language. His unprompted gestures of respect, like the good deeds spontaneously performed by the heroes of fairy tales, are handsomely rewarded; in the end they convince the woman's traditional father of the American's worth as a husband.