Henry is a 17-year-old who works in an architect's office. He meets Edna, a 16-year-old training to be a secretary, at a train station. They strike up a conversation and continue to meet at the station. They go on outings together and decide to rent a house in a nearby village. However, Henry then receives a telegram and their plans fall through. The poem expresses the narrator's longing to be with their love through dreams when physically apart. It focuses on feelings and impressions over external events.