In this short scene, the young princess confronts her father, the Duke of Northumberland, who has come to visit her. She is angry with him for his treatment of her, and she accuses him of being a "savage" and an "insult to my name" . She tells him that he was the first person to slap her and that he has been the first to disrespect her. The young princess tells her father that she recognizes him. He tells her that she did not mean anything by what she said earlier, and that she repaid him what she owed him. She asks him why he did not come to celebrate the Queen's birthday because he had to attend to business. He says that his maid had tried to seduce him, but that she had fallen ill with a fever. He asks her if she had done so on his orders. She says that her fever was not caused by her illness, but by her