In this chapter, we learn that Dr. Bledsoe has been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit the crime of tampering with the food supply. The scene shifts to the second-person perspective of the Governess and her son-in-law. The Governess tells her son, who is a junior in the army, that she is the one who put her son up to the task of taking care of the farm. She also tells him that she sent her son's men after him after he left the city, and that he is innocent until proven guilty. She tells him to think twice before he pleads guilty, as he was the person who put his daughter up to this task. She says that the feud between her and the General was the cause of the delay in getting the supplies to the farm, and she had no idea about the outbreak of the epidemic. She adds that the witnesses who testified against her were not convincing enough. She suggests that they