In this short scene, the Governess and her companions are in a broom closet. The Governess asks the servants to open the back door so that she can see the back of the closet, where she has hidden her food. The servants refuse to do so, and she is left to wonder how she came to be in the closet. She tells the servants that she was working as a field hand and that she did not know how she ended up in the broom closet