The scene opens with a conversation between a young woman and her older sister. The young woman asks her sister if she is going to see her aunt. The older sister says she is, and the young woman says she will go with her. The younger sister tells her that her sister has given her a pearl hairpin, which she has made into a dress, and that the hairpin does not seem to have come from her mother's wardrobe. She says that she is a low-born girl and cannot compare to her sister. She asks the younger sister why she is so aggressive, and she says that it must be because she has spoilt her sister for being so strong-willed. She then asks the older sister who gave the hairpin to her, and he says that he thought it was a unique gift from his father's treasure house. He also says that