Robert has left, Mademoiselle Reisz asks Edna if she misses Robert, this causes Edna to have a series of flashbacks. Each flashback represents a connection to Robert that causes Edna to miss Robert. Edna begins to think of how the color and excitement of life seems to have left from her spirit, Edna also wants to constantly talk about Robert with other people. She has begun to go to Madam Lebrun’s apartment to view baby pictures of Robert, mainly to see how Robert developed from a child to a man. When Lebrun receives a letter from Robert Edna becomes jealous even though she was discussed in the letter, this is because Robert didn’t write directly to her. Her husband, her friends, and everyone else assumes that Edna misses Robert and believes that it is natural that she does. Mademoiselle Reisz told Edna that Victor and Robert had a fight over the Spanish girl, Mariequita.
