The Governess wakes up in the middle of the night and finds that she has been unable to sleep because of the food she has eaten the night before. She is so upset that she is unable to hear her husband, who is trying to comfort her. He tries to calm her down by saying that she should not be so upset, but she cannot hear him. He tells her that he has been up all night and has not slept well all day. She tries to comfort him by telling him that