In this short scene, the young woman tells the reader that she has changed her name and is now a "young mistress" . She tells the story of how she fell in love with a man and kissed him one day. The man was gone when she woke up, and she was worried that she would not be able to return to being a woman. When her father told her that her brother was having an abortion, she decided to tell him the truth about the pregnancy. When she went to see her brother, he said that he wished she were a woman and that he liked men. The young mistress tells the audience that the man kissed her brother and proposed to her, but she was turned down by the servants and the man knocked her brother out of the room. Since then, she has been burying herself in her work. She asks the audience if they think she is "magic" and that they should let her brother go if she does not like him.