Back at the boarding school, the Governess is pleased to see her son again. She tells him that he's finally gotten close to his family, and that his father doesn't live with them anymore. He used to be a coachman at the school, and now lives in a staff dormitory. The Governess tells her son that it's a great thing that he has a father, because it means that he can have whatever he wants. He tells her that she can order supper and order her favorite food, and he'll tell her next time what he thinks is wrong with her father. He asks her if she likes him, and she says that she does, but that she's too tired today to do anything about it. She wants to go to school to find him. He's been gone so long, she says, that her knees are weak and she can't go anywhere.