At a market, an imported cashmere purchase triggers a confrontation: shop women accuse a nearby widow of buying finery to woo a widower and of neglecting her child, even shoving her. Monica returns with the fabric and insists it’s for her daughter's dance costume after a troupe came recruiting. The crowd balks at the expense and keeps judging. Hugo overhears and points out that Julia may be getting a new dress — and if not Julia, then who? The episode ends with social suspicion unresolved, threatening the widow's standing.