- Maisie learns that Miss Overmore will not be coming with her when she returns to her father's place.
- Maisie and Miss Overmore separate, sadly.
- Miss Overmore defies Ida Farange's orders and comes to stay with Maisie at her father's house.
- We learn that Maisie has "conceived her first passion, and the object of it was her governess" (III.6). She's really into this Miss Overmore.
- Luckily, Maisie thinks, her father, Beale Farange, seems to like Miss Overmore just as much as she does. This is foreshadowing.