This chapter's epigraph comes from the play's opening scene, in which a frightened baby moans and groans as it is carried away in a carriage. The frightened baby's cries are answered by the laughter of the carriage's driver, who is trying to get the frightened baby to stop crying. The driver, however, is unable to stop the carriage because the baby is too frightened to speak. The child is carried off to be delivered to his mother.