A woman confronts Mr. Blythe after admitting, "I was drunk and merely got you knocked up," and refuses to marry an ex-con—until she proposes a bargain. She’ll take Blythe’s name for one year, then divorce. Blythe, amused, accepts and they marry. Immediately she asks him to summon Dr. Leir to treat her sworn sister; Leir is overseas treating Blythe’s grandfather. Blythe arranges Leir’s early return and tells staff the wife’s request matters. The pragmatic marriage is now sealed, but the promised one-year divorce and its fallout hang unresolved.