Since moving to New York City a year ago, the Governess and her daughter have been spending a lot of time together. The Governess tells her daughter that she's in her junior year at St. augustus, a private school, and that she misses her "sweet and motherly" friend, Kristin, who's hanging out with a new guy named birch. She's worried that the new guy is going to put his "hanos all over her like that" , and she wonders how she'll deal with it if she has to deal with a guy like that. She tells the girl that her father wanted her to learn how to "unwino" and "stop being so paranoid" . She also tells her that she has been told she has a "helluva jump shot" and that the guy is spying on her. She doesn't understand why the guy would spy on her, she says, but she does know that he's out to get her, so she tells him to stop being paranoid. She says she kept waking up to make sure the guy didn't hide under her bed, and then she says she had coffee that tasted like "the bottom of someone else's shoe." She tells him that she tried to stop the guy from sending her son, Kevin, to the hospital, but he wouldn't hear of it, and so she apologizes for being so harsh. She adds that, under normal circumstances, she'd be happy to bust the guy up if he showed signs of being sick, but that she cares about him more than anything else. He's not a pervert, she tells her, and he'll have to pay her back if he wants to pee on her wall.