The scene opens in a hotel room in New York City. It's the middle of the night, and we're told that the Governess has just signed a three-year contract to work as a prostitute. The Governess is thrilled to have a job, but she's also a little worried that the man in the room doesn't seem like a good match for her. She asks the man if he's had any "intimate experience" with men, and the man says that he hasn't. She's worried that if she can't handle the man right away, she won't be able to handle anything else in the future. She tells the man to come with her, and he does. The two begin to argue about who's more "odd" : the man or the girl. The man says he'll make love to her, but that he'd have to fight someone else to make it happen. He tells the girl to "dump" if she wants to fight him, but the girl says she'll "make it hurt" . The girl says that's "a good girl" , and that she'd rather rub her toes than "ppoke" or "up-roll" if it's not going to hurt her. The woman says that her hips are "pushing themselves into" the man, and she says that she wants him to "touch right here." The man tries to get her to stop, saying that he wants her to "grin" and "prick," but she refuses to do so. She says that doing these kinds of things with someone she doesn' t like is "some thing crying out to me . . I should hate it," she says. The narrator says that