The episode opens with Martin, a man visited by his acquaintance, being informed by a steward that his wife, Charlotte, was seen being intimate with another man, Timothy Wentz, at a teahouse. He angrily dismisses the report and storms out. Meanwhile, Charlotte, the Duchess, publicly flaunts her status by offering to cover everyone's bills at a teahouse. She then privately approaches the disgraced noble Timothy Wentz, revealing she knows his tragic past and desire for revenge. She shocks him by proposing a collaboration and declaring she has chosen him to be her husband and the father of her children, specifying he will marry into her family. Timothy, initially laughing at the absurdity, realizes she is deadly serious and demands to know how she plans to convince a duke's heir to accept such an arrangement.