In this short scene, we learn that the Governess's brother is on his way to the North. The Governess tells us that her brother has told her to behave as if she were a "princess consort" . She's nervous, but she doesn't need to be. She explains that the "mlite" in the house of the magistrate is "very seductive" , and that the daughter of a magistrate's wife was about to be married when the "mute" replaced her. The mlite is locked in his house by his mother, so he's rarely seen or heard from. He's said to be an "ominols" person, which is a fancy term for a person who's not supposed to be around people. The Mlite is rumored to be a seducer, and he'd been locked in the back of the house because his mother forbade him from meeting people. But the Mlite has been replaced by the mute because the wife's "daughter of" a magistrate was getting married, and the mute wanted to marry her off to someone else. The