 Since he has forbidden her to appear in public, she has been nowhere except to church and does not even know her own father's name.When Rigoletto has gone, the Duke appears and overhears Gilda confess to her nurse Giovanna that she feels guilty for not having told her father about a young man she had met at the church.She says that she fell in love with him, but that she would love him even more if he were a student and poor.