At the station, he walks her to her hotel, and she sees the shabby room she was supposed to stay in all day and wait for Frau Arnholdt to take her to her new house.
After the ice cream, he insists that she comes up to his apartment, to see his home and receive an attar of roses, "for remembrance".
According to Sydney Janet Kaplan, the story "seems a response to women's victimization, isolation and lack of support for one another".
[2] Kaplan notes that it may be inspired by Mansfield's own experiences of international solo travel as a woman.
The governesses' plight is Mansfield's attempt to highlight, through the portrayal of a naive and trusting young woman being misled and exploited, the systemic sexual oppression of the time, which leads ultimately to her employment being jeopardized.