Willa storms through her household demanding meat and refusing to cook for her husband, snapping, "We're getting divorced anyway." Staff gossip about her changed behavior. When Mr. Lawson returns he is told she is drunk; servants report she devoured three lobsters, two steaks, a king crab and broke into the wine cellar. Confronted, Willa lashes out that everyone bullies her and, slurring, flirts at him. The household moves to sober her and calls a doctor. As the doctor is summoned, Mr. Lawson is left facing her public, drunken declaration of divorce.