In this short scene, the Governess is talking to a young woman named Elmire. Elmire tells her that she is a good girl, and that she looks twenty-one years older than she actually is. The Governess asks Elmire if she has ever seen a woman so beautiful as Elmire, and Elmire replies that she has, and she says she has never seen a man so close to her as she is with him. She says that she cannot wait to see him go to his father's house