The scene opens with the young woman, who has just returned from the opera, asking the older man to take her home. The older man tells her that she is welcome to stay, but that he will take her back to the convent if she wants. The young woman tells him that she wants to go home, but the man refuses to let her go, saying that she should stay at his house. The younger woman, however, refuses to leave the convent, and the man leaves.