In this chapter, we are introduced to a number of new characters and introduced to some of the rules of the game. The first person we meet is the Governess, who is in the middle of a soliloquy about how she loves the game and how she is going to win it. The Governess asks the other characters why they are behaving the way they are. The other characters respond by saying that they love the game too and that they are going to do the same thing to her. She asks them to leave the room so that she can go to the warehouse and get the bag that she was given. The men in the room are shocked to hear her asking them why she is doing such a thing. The women are shocked as well, and the men are even more shocked when they hear her say that she wants to win the game so badly that she will do anything to get it.