- Before Face and Subtle can get into another big fight, Doll Common comes into the room and announces that a knight named Sir Epicure Mammon's on his way to the house. He's got a buddy with him.
- Face runs off to get into his next disguise.
- We find out that Mammon thinks Subtle is an alchemist who has been working on the philosopher's stone for the past month or so.
- Mammon's been paying him for his work and can't wait to get his hands on it—he's already been running around bragging to people that he's going to change the world with it.