In this short scene, we learn that the Governess is in love with a man who works for her employer. The Governess tells us that she has known the man for a while and that they get along very well. She tells him that she is always looking for someone to love, and that the man she loves always makes her heart beat faster. She says that she loves him with all her soul, but that she doesn't think that he is ever at her, and she is fine with that