Nancy is working a street stall when a scuffle erupts over a stolen pouch — its owner insists it's his brother's life-saving money — and Nancy is hurt but refuses hospital care. At home, her parents shame her for embarrassing the Swift name and plan to keep her out of the reunion with their returning grandfather. They intend to use the dinner to push an engagement with the Peters family and admit they deceived Nancy about poverty and a fake illness. Harold objects, calling the plan cruel. Nancy overhears the word pretending and asks, "You heard everything?"