The Rose Bargain

The debutantes stumble back to the cottage, nursing various injuries. On their pillows, they find small scrolls listing their current ranking in the contest. From first to last the debutantes’ places are as follows: Emmy, Faith, Ivy, Marion, Greer, and Olive. Ivy throws her scroll and nightgown into the fire, then goes to sleep.

In the morning, Lottie screams upon seeing Ivy and Faith’s bloodied appearance. The debutantes blame the queen for their current state. At breakfast, Marion insists that they tell Bram about his mother’s lesson. Faith volunteers for the task. Lottie helps Ivy to cover her bloody hands with gloves, and the other maids conceal the debutantes’ various injuries.

The debutantes are taken to the shore of the Thames. As they watch boats race, Emmy snags a glass of champagne while Ivy and Olive play rock, paper, scissors. Eventually, Bram and Emmett’s boat wins. The wind blows something into Ivy’s eye, and she goes to the boat storage shed to privately take off her gloves and clear her eyesight. Emmett comes into the shed and helps her remove the object, then notices her injured hands. Sworn to secrecy on the matter of the queen’s “lessons,” Ivy claims to have tripped.