In this scene, we learn that Bolingbroke has been sleeping for two hours. He wakes up to find that a message from the capital has arrived, and that the departure of the commander of the North has pushed him back into "the abyss." He tells Pansy that he is "profligate" for believing that the commander would have sex with her, and wishes to "quickly kill" her with the poison, which has "no color and smell. Once it enters the man's body, he feels like "thousands of arrows penetrating his heart." He asks the doctor to check on Pan's pulse, but the doctor refuses to examine him