She sees her aging reflection in a mirror: "Seeing youth drawn to youth, Miss Jenkins realizes he bitter fact that she is no longer a part of the younger world.The fair won""t open for seven months.That""s all everybody sings about or talks about.I wish everybody would meet at the fair and leave me alone.His day has been miserable - he""s lost a case.Esther isn""t very sympathetic and offers a practical solution: "Well, Papa, if losing a case depresses you so, why don""t you quit practicing law and go into another line of business?" As master of the house, he blows up again when he learns that dinner will be served an hour early.The middle-aged Baron de Varville is passed a note which he reads with his gloved hand:There will be a seat in Box A for M.[Note: Historically, the two treasure cities were presumably Pithom and Ramases (Avaris).]The scene concluded with instructions for both of them to go to Goshen - the location of the treasure city, and where the Hebrews were enslaved.