- Bear and Crispin enter the Green Man, and Crispin describes the interior.
- They meet the Widow Daventry, who runs the inn and clearly already knows Bear quite well, which makes Crispin jealous.
- In their conversation, it comes out that Lord Furnival has died at home of wounds received in the French wars—the black-draped ribbons around town are for him.
- Because Lord Furnival has no legal heirs, all his property goes to Lady Furnival, unless an illegitimate son (read: a son whose mother was not married to Lord Furnival) shows up and can enforce his claim or Lady Furnival marries again.
- No one thinks Lady Furnival is likely to do that because it would require her to give up her new power.