The scene opens with a description of a woman shopping at a department store. The woman is dressed in a black dress and pearls, and she tells the clerk that she wants to buy a dress for her girlfriend. The clerk tells her that there is only one dressing room in the store, and that the other customers mistook her and her friend for a couple. The two women exchange pleasantries, and the clerk tells the woman that she is a talented actress and that she should stop trying to help her change. She tells him that her sense of touch is so sensitive that it scares her, and so she has to leave.