At midnight in the salon, Nemo is presented to the audience by his servant, who asks him what he is doing there. Nemo replies that he is there to show his lover, whom he does not name, "every thing" . He tells the servant to slap him in the face, but the servant refuses to do so, saying that it is "nothing like your limp -- dick boyfriend" , and that he would never slap his lover in front of him. The servant then tells Nemo that he has been a customer of the salon for many years, and he knows that Nemo is unable to have apples because of his food allergies. He says that Nemo has been "a valued customer" of theirs for years, but that Nemo's mother has no part in his success or his failures. He asks the servant what kind of thinking is that, and the servant replies that his successes and his failures are his own.