Lady Tremaine is powerless to keep Otto and Prince Simeon from leaving. After they go, she sends the girls to bed and cleans up from the dinner alone. She realizes that not even their plentiful apples could hide the ruined house. While working, she worries about the future. Then, she encounters Morwen, who indicates that it’s better that the prince left and the engagement is ruined, as Simeon isn’t trustworthy. When Lady Tremaine presses her, Morwen reveals that she used to work at the palace. She used to be Princess Hemma’s lady’s maid. Now, Hemma is pregnant out of wedlock, and her parents are desperate to wed Simeon so that they might pass Hemma’s baby off as his. She suggests that the prince is a brute, but Lady Tremaine is too eager to investigate further to ask more questions of Morwen.

All that night and into the next morning, Lady Tremaine reflects on Morwen’s story. She decides that the king and queen’s plan isn’t so different from her own. Come morning, she calls Lucy and prepares to leave the house for the city. She runs into her daughters on her way out and promises that she will fix the problem of the prince and Elin’s engagement soon enough.