A sweet moment during sakura hunting

On March 4th while I was sakura hunting in the western area of Saitama Prefecture, I had a very sweet moment, both literally and figuratively! While admiring the trees in a small valley, a man spoke to me in English. I engaged him and we had a short, friendly conversation in English. He even translated what we were saying in Japanese to his two companions. I speak Japanese, but I let him have his moment. Then they went on their merry way.

About 20 minutes later I saw this woman running in my direction, but I didn't expect that she was running to me. But as she got closer, I recognized her as the woman that had been in the trio I had talked to. I saw she had a bag in her hand and after greeting me in Japanese, she tried to give me the bag. I did the typical Japanese thing of refusing it at first, but she was adamant. She told me "kare", referring to the man that I had been talking to, had been so happy to talk to me, that he had bought me some baked sweet potato. I was moved. She explained that he has never had a chance to speak the little bit of English he has before. Now I was teary eyed. I thanked her profusely and off she ran to the parking lot where presumably "kare" was waiting!

I was curious why he sent her rather than come himself. I would speculate he was shy and / or might have thought it inappropriate. I was sort of glad that it was her though, because I think I would have felt more reluctant / uncomfortable to take the baked sweet potato from him. After she left, I sat down on the bench in the valley and enjoyed a sweet moment under the cherry blossoms.