- The duke's wife rides alone in a car down a fog-covered street. She pulls up to a building and goes to the office of a man named Lionel Logue.
- She asks if there's anyone at home, and Mr. Logue comes out of the bathroom. He obviously doesn't know he's speaking to a duchess or he'd probably have a better sense of etiquette.
- He greets the duchess as Mrs. Johnson, which means that the duchess must have hidden her identity.
- He wants to know where Mr. Johnson is, but the duchess admits that he hasn't come. She's afraid that her husband has given up hope.
- Mr. Logue exudes confidence about his ability to cure anyone's speech impediments "as long as they want to be cured."
- The duchess, feeling her power as royalty, tells Logue that he will come to her residence and abide by all of her rules. But Logue says that he'll only see patients at his office and on his terms.
- The duchess then asks Mr. Logue what he would say if her husband were the Duke of York.
- Mr. Logue slowly walks back into the room with a puzzled look.
- The duchess has heard that Logue's methods for speech therapy are considered controversial. Logue answers that he can cure her husband, but only if he has trust and total equality between the two of them—which is asking an awful lot from the royal family in 1934.
- He also insists that the duke come to his office.
- The duchess makes as if she's going to reject his terms, but suddenly asks, "When can you start?"