The teacher and the student discuss the performance of the play. The teacher is impressed by the actress's acting skills and praises her for her performance. She also praises the teacher's ability to read and write. The two discuss the upcoming performance of Tartuffe, and the teacher asks the student to elaborate on her feelings for the character. The student replies that she is not sure what kind of man she is, but that she will confess her love for him before the performance begins. She then asks the teacher if she would like to invite her boyfriend to the performance, but the teacher says that she would not want to invite someone who was "peculiar" to the school. The girl says that her boyfriend is from another school and that she does not want him to know that she has feelings for him. She asks if the teacher would invite him to the reading, but he says that he would not do so because he would be ashamed to show his friends that he had feelings for another girl. She tells the girl that she cannot live without the ability of young girls to predict her feelings, and she asks the girl why she would want to seek out her lover now. She says that the girl should not rely on legends, but should dedicate her love to her