In this short scene, we learn that the Governess is in love with a young boy. The Governess tells the boy that she is a teenager and that he is jealous of her. The boy tells her that he has been avoiding her ever since she told him of her feelings for him. He asks her why she has not come to him. She tells him that she was married at 13 and had given birth to him at 14. She asks him if he still thinks she is so young, and he replies that he does not think she is young, but that her mother was married when she was 13. He tells her he is going to bed and asks her to take out her mother and give her more time to think about her feelings. He says that he still sees the boy as a child, and that the boy kissed her at such an early age