This chapter opens with a conversation between the Governess and her servant. The Governess tells the servant that she has asked her brother's friend to have sex with someone else. The servant tells her that her brother is so weak that he refuses to give in to temptation. She tells him that she will call the police if he does not give up. She says that she is glad that she was hit by the hoodlums because she needed to be taken care of.