In which the Reverend Hussell Barter, a man of firm principles and old English virtue, confronts Mr. Gregory Vigil with vehement concern over a divorce suit linked to his parishioners, revealing the complexities of duty and personal conviction. Meanwhile, at Worsted Skeynes, the Pendyce family navigates the quiet tensions beneath their familial interactions, as the evening unfolds with subdued hopes and unspoken sorrows in the mellow glow of the country house.