The Governess tells the Governess that she will not allow her to leave her room until she has been chosen to attend her new school. She tells her that she has not sent her to the school to play cross-cultural games with other students from the West, but to play at the school of the Touwanese. She warns her that foolish ideals will eventually lead to her own ruin. She says that the Persia family has disowned her father because of the scandal that occurred when he fell in love with an Italian girl. She advises her to be shrewd in her decisions, for if her father had not fallen in love, he would not have gone through the hell he has gone through. She reminds her that her father was not wrong to fall for a black girl, and that she never even thought of changing the world.