The Commodore has returned to Bellacourt Manor purportedly on his last legs, the manor where he wants to die. Dodo grants him his request. However, the Commodore, alive and well, has really come back to win Dodo and regain his place in the manor. However he realizes that after forty years of marriage to her, he knows nothing about her in order to win her back. He secretly tries to pry such intimate information from the person who arguably knows her the best, namely Peepers. But Peepers, still in love with the matron of the manor, may have his own thoughts about what the Commodore is trying to do. Meanwhile, Lillian, still in the sanitarium, believes that she can prey on Blanche's seemingly ambitious nature to operate a drug ring, smuggling the drugs out of the institution onto the black market. In the process, Lillian will discover just how ambitious Blanche really is. And Hortense just can't wait for the climax of her plan, when Beatrice and Frederick discover that they are each other's beloved. Hortense's plan takes a twist she didn't envision, even though what happens is typical of Beatrice and Frederick.
—Huggo