"An Affair" opens with a knock at the door. It's a knock from the Governess's husband, who wants to know if she's there. The Governess tells him that she is, and that she has some treats for him. She's not sure if she wants children, but she does want to be with her husband. She says that she'd like to stay for a while, but that she doesn't have children yet. She tells her husband that her life is "filled with ups" and "downs" . She asks him if he was happy when he died, and he says that he was. He says that if she thinks she was happy then, she must be happy now. He tells her that she could have stayed longer, but now she wants to do something while she has the "might" for it. He'll tell her that he wants to divorce her, and she'll say that her mother didn't tell her anything. She wants to be paid for it, she says, and they'll discuss it when they meet.