The scene opens with the Governess scolding her husband for neglecting his family. She tells him that he has been busy with business and has neglected his little family. The Governess tells her husband that she has been cooking for him and that he is very beautiful. He tells her that he wants to have sex with her, but she refuses to tell him the same thing with another girl. He says that he only did it to her because he wanted to be with her. He asks her if she had sex with someone else, and she says that it was impossible. She says that she did not tell him that, and that she had only done it because she was busy working. She asks him if he had told her about having sex with another woman, and he replies that he had only told her that. He then asks her why she had neglected her family, and when she tells him it was because she had been busy working