What with the rather tense atmosphere at dinner Bertie did not eat much, and thus in the middle of the night becomes aware of a raving hunger when he lays down his Erle Stanley Gardner bedtime reading. Making his way to the kitchen through the pitch dark house he first encounters Gussie who just returns from the steak and kidney pie source and then overturns a grandfather's clock, the deafening sound of it's fall arousing Sir Watkyn, who is only partly satisfied with Bertie's explanation of his nightly wandering when the dog Bartolomew appears on the scene, forcing  both of them to take refuge on the top of a chest just high enough te be out of the dog's ferocious teeth. The confrontation continues until Stiffy Byng appears.