The Governess and the Governess's servant, Vincent, return to the house, and the boy asks if he's still angry. Vincent says that he is, and that he'd like to know how messengers can be in different times and still make the same mistakes. He's not sure, he says, because he doesn't think that every messenger would have done the same thing in the same time. He also says that the house has already been broken down, so they need to be worried about the heating. The boy says that his name is "cowardly" , so he shouldn't be able to break anything. The doctor chimes in that the boy's name is already broken, so the house needs to be taken care of. He tells the boy that he thinks he'll be more of a guardian than he thinks, because the boy will be a better person to protect than he is. The two men talk about their pasts, and Vincent mentions that he accidentally entered the room of a friend of his when he first arrived at the house. He says that she would get angry if he said anything about her, and she would probably be angry no matter what he said. They talk about how difficult it is for them to get out of each other's lives, and how they both need permission from "fate" to get away. They've gotten used to it, they say, and they're glad that they have a place to go. The house is empty, and everyone seems to be talking about it. They all look at them, and then they start to whisper, and so they just need to take a "troublesome paperwork" form once a day. They start talking about the sale going on in the neighborhood, and he asks if she's lived there for a while. She says she hasn't