Found by the Stone family after years as a beggar, the narrator is offered restoration, but elders demand she live three years in humiliation to temper her pride or risk becoming a dangerous, raging heir. Ms. Stone, a kind noblewoman, offers to marry her and risk family honor; the narrator resists moving in or being bossed. Men mock Travis Langley's timidity until he unexpectedly vows to protect her for life. He then pauses and announces he has one condition. The episode closes on that unresolved demand.