While on break from serving in the war, a young man meets a beautiful girl named Teddy in New York City. After meeting her on a double date, he is determined to take up the challenge of sleeping with her. Although extremely beautiful, Teddy’s proper and innocent character makes her initially oblivious to his true intentions. They start going on dates around the city, and Teddy is starstruck by how much the man knows about the world and traveling. When the young man starts flirting with her more aggressively, she immediately stops him and rejects his advances. Although they enjoy spending time together, both know that they are after totally opposite objectives. They fall into a pattern of going on a date and ending with the man trying to persuade Teddy to come back home with him. Teddy slowly becomes more open to kissing, but she is firmly against going any further. The young man feels a mix of shame and frustration, knowing he is not willing to marry despite how nice of a girl she is. When they break off their budding relationship and the man returns to war, he writes a fictional story based off their experience and sends one copy to The New Yorker and another to Teddy. In their final meeting before the man leaves New York, Teddy tearfully returns his story to him and thanks him for showing her a new side of the world. He walks her back home, and they share a heated kiss outside her door before her mother comes and snatches her inside. Looking back on this memory of Teddy twenty years later, the man ponders how their past identities no longer exist. The story he wrote to and about her has long disappeared, but the memory of their time together continues to live on with him.