When the scene opens, the Governess tells her daughter that she is quite sensitive and that she wants to "up the inten" . The Governess asks her why she is so sensitive, and the girl tells her that she does not want to "slip" or "swallow" her husband's hands. She then asks her daughter why she does this when she is alone, and she tells her she is not doing it just for the sake of it, but because she is "so mean" and "screep" , as she calls it. She tells her mother that she will have to help her out when she gets home, because she makes her daughter "cute twitch" with her hands. When she hears this, she scolds her daughter for making such a fuss, and tells her to "stop being so mean" because she has "seen antone others's" hands . She says she has never seen antone other than this one before, and when she hears the creak of his hands, she says it is not that she has seen someone else do this before, but that she had not seen anyone else do it before. She asks why he is making her twitch, and her daughter tells her it is because he is showing her "these new things" to her, and that