In this short scene, Desdemona laments the fact that she has been brought to the scholar's house, where she is bullied by him and his ghost. She tells him that he is afraid of her ugliness, and that he has even invited her into his home. She then reveals that the scholar is not afraid of eating her, but is rather afraid of looking at her face. She also reveals that she will have to make herself beautiful in order to seduce the scholar.