The scene opens with a flashback to a time when the Governess's brother was a young man. The Governess is complaining about her brother's wife, who has not yet returned home from her husband's business trip. She asks him if she can have three wives who are made to "cum many times" by each other. He replies that he can have one wife who is "made to cum" many times, and another wife who "cums" only once. She tells him that her brother is in law and that she is not home yet. He asks her if she has come home yet, and she says that she has, but that she will not come home until her husband is home. She then asks him what his brother has said, and he says that he has always wanted what she has since he was a child. She says that his words mean something to her, and that her feelings are genuine