The scene opens with a flashback to a time when the Governess was a student at a school in England. The Governess is now 25 years old, and she has just returned from a trip with her husband, who is a teacher. She tells her husband that she would never do such a thing with a student, because it's not in her best interests. She also tells him that she's glad that he's come to help her out, because she thinks he'll be able to help him out with his studies. He's been working very hard on his studies, and the change has been huge. She asks him why he is coming back, and he says that he needs to do something. She says that she needs to go home, and that if she doesn't come back, she'll have a bad mood.