The scene opens with a gong, which is a kind of voice box. It's the voice of a man who's trying to get a message from a woman. The gong tells the man to slap the message on a piece of paper and send it to him. The man says he's afraid that the men of the city won't be able to make it to the city because of the long journey that they've had to make to get there. He asks the man if he wants to marry him back to his home city of Louye, and the man says that he does, and that he'd like to trade with the man. He says that the two of them are rivals, and they're the biggest rivals in the city. He's grateful for the one day he had with the woman, and he'll let the man have a try at it. The woman says that she's tired and wants to go to sleep, but the man wants to know why the man didn't wear clothes. She says that if she found out where he hid the message, she'd get angry, and she would have played the torture game on him. She's not lying, she says, and if she doesn't confess, he can do whatever he wants with her.