The scene opens with the narrator's soliloquy, in which he laments his wife's infidelity. He laments the fact that she is the last person to feel the pull of her lover's passion, and he wants to know why her husband has decided to rope her into the affair. The narrator tells the audience that he and his wife had sex all day, and that the only person who was satisfied with their sex was the other woman. He begs the audience not to treat the woman as though she were his own, but to treat her as if she were her own.