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• Monsieur Crevel visits the Baroness at her home.

• The Baroness confronts Crevel and asks if he is responsible for the failure of her daughter Hortense's engagement.

• Crevel admits to having sabotaged Hortense's engagement as an act of retribution against the Baron.

• Crevel explains that the Baron, Hulot, stole his mistress, Josepha, from him.

• Crevel offers to pay Hortense's dowry if the Baroness will agree to be his mistress for ten years.
• The Baroness refuses Crevel's offer and asks his advice in desperation.

• Crevel tells the Baroness that her only options are to take his offer, to find an older gentleman who wants children to marry Hortense, or to find a poor artist in the city to marry her who will not expect a dowry.

• Hortense and Lisbeth gossip in the garden, and Lisbeth tells Hortense that she has an admirer.

• It is revealed that Lisbeth is...

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