This chapter opens with a soliloquy by the Governess, in which she laments the fact that her moles have turned her body into "chaos" and that she has lost touch with her real self. The Governess tells us that she is sorry that she brought the moles to her, but that she allowed them to serve her "some strong alco-hol" . She says that the reason she wanted to change her "plain self" was because of her "pasta" , and she asks that no one talk about her as if she were "too cute" or "kinder" to be loved.