The scene opens with a flashback to a time when the Governess was a young woman, and she was in love with a young man. The Governess tells the young man that she loved him, but that she had to leave him because she was pregnant. The young man tells her that she was a good mother, and that he loved her too, but he had to go to the hospital because he had a heart attack. The two of them go into a room together, and the young woman tells him that she loves him more than she ever loved her husband. She asks him if he would like her to marry him, and he says that he would, if she would marry him. She says that she would like him to marry her, but she does not want to force her feelings on him. He says that if he does not accept her proposal, then he will not accept it either. She tells him to stop talking about her, because she is afraid that he will hurt her. He tells her to come to him and he will take her home. He asks her not to push him away, because he wants to understand more