The scene opens with Madame de Guiche's private bodyguard, Duan, arriving at the hotel. Duan asks Madame De Guiche how she is, and she tells him that she has been hanging out with the young ladies. She asks him why he would not let her take her home, and he tells her that he has tried to take her many times before, but she refuses to let him. He asks her why she is not interested in "immature younglings like him," and she replies that she does not want to be associated with "younglings" like him. She then asks him who the woman he was with this afternoon was, and when he says that she is a friend of his, she says that even though she fell unconscious, she still felt it, and that she knew that it was Duan who carried her there. She tells him to stop arguing, and they can discuss further.