Tokio, who did not feel like taking her as his disciple at first, came to expect her potentiality as he exchanged letters with Yoshiko, thus she became his disciple and moved to Tokyo.
始めは気の進まなかった時雄であったが、芳子と手紙をやりとりするうちにその将来性を見込み、師弟関係を結び芳子は上京してくる。