When mr. Stoker opens the door it is to tell Bertie that Pauline has been in police custody because of her breaking into Bertie's cottage and trying to get away in her swimsuit and a raincoat. He is now convinced that her previous engagement to Bertie in America in fact still stands, and wants them both to be married at the earliest opportunity. Bertie will remain locked up in the yacht until then. Jeeves appears, supplying Bertie with what he will need for his involuntary stay, and tells him that Pauline seems willing to marry him, if only to spite Chuffy. Bertie is in a fix, but Jeeves has a solution: he has brought a tin of black polish with which Bertie can be disguised as one of the minstrels who have just concluded their performance on board and are about to leave the yacht.