The Governess and the Governess's servant are on their way to work when they stop to talk. The servant asks if they're going to continue on, and they reply that they'll continue on. When they get to the door, they realize that they haven't stopped to talk yet. They're about to start talking when they hear someone's voice, and the servant realizes that it's someone he doesn't know. He asks if she's talking about a girl friend, and she says that she isn't talking about her friend, but about Ward. Ward is a ward, and he's not a friend to her. Ward's friend didn't get mad and leave because she was at work, but because she wasn't her friend. Ward isn'ta friend of hers, either. Ward and his friends don't socialize with one another because Ward is at work all the time, but they do socialize because they've been friends for a long time. Ward says that Ward is not his friend and that he'd never even met Ward before. Ward asks if the woman who left Ward was a friend of his, but the servant replies that she was, and that Ward was not her friend at all. Ward then asks who the woman was talking about. The woman's name is "ba-dump," and she asks why she feels that way. Ward replies that the woman wasn'ta "girl friend," but that she'd been "socialized" because she had a job. Ward also says that he was "very for- but" not a "woman friend" . Ward adds that he didn'