A young man, walking with the girl Nadia, offers her a sleigh ride from a hill. Nadia is very afraid, but the narrator persuades her, and the girl gives in. Rolling downhill, the guy quietly says: “I love you, Nadia!”

Slightly moving away from the “skating”, she looks inquiringly at the narrator. The girl is tormented by the question of who said these words - a young man or the wind. Despite the fear, she offers to ride again, hoping to hear these words again.

The next day, in the morning, the narrator receives a note: “If you go to the rink today, then come after me. N. " From that day on, he and Nadia go to the skating rink every day, and, flying down on the sledges, every time he speaks in an undertone the same words that Nadia is accustomed to as morphine.

In March, a young man gathers in St. Petersburg. Two days before departure, the narrator sits in a kindergarten, separated by a fence from the courtyard in which Nadya lives. Through a gap in the fence, a young man sees a girl. After waiting for a gust of wind, he utters the same four words and leaves.

Nadya is already married. Their trips to the rink and the words uttered by the narrator are not forgotten - for her it is the happiest, most moving and wonderful memory in life ...

And now, when he got older, the storyteller no longer understands why he spoke those words, for which he joked ...