Bertie arrives at Brinkley Court and finds Willie Cream, the son of Homer and Adela Cream, reading poetry to Phyllis Mills. He meets Bobbie Wickham at the lake and she explains that the advertised engagement is just to scare her mother so she can marry Kipper Herring whom she loves. They have tea with Aubrey Upjohn, served by Sir Roderick Glossop acting as butler.