In a chance meeting, Ms. Ashford asks Lord Hale if he is married. He playfully suggests she might be interested in him, prompting her to reveal she knows his true character behind his playboy reputation. Her thoughts are interrupted by a flashback of her fiancé, Edwin, cruelly abandoning her, injured, in the cold. Returning to the present, Ms. Ashford declares her intention is indeed to arrange a match for Lord Hale. She directly proposes: if she ends her engagement with the Vance family, would he marry her?