Recently a friend managed to deliver a pair of cotton shoes sewn and sent by Miss Ch'en. T'o-wu received them as if receiving a wordless letter full of words from home. He wept and sighed, unable to stop. Today T'o-wu and Miss Ch'en are both grown old, but their love is without end.
好友張拓蕪與表妹沈蓮子自小訂婚，因戰亂在家鄉分手後，天涯海角，不相問聞已逾四十餘年，近透過海外友人，突接獲表妹寄來親手縫製的布鞋一雙，拓蕪捧著這雙鞋，如捧一封無字而千言萬語盡在其中的家書，不禁涕淚縱橫，欷歔不已。