 James and Hazel spend a weekend at Sommerby Park, home of Lord and Lady Newbury. There are other members of the upper crust assembled and the plan is to humiliate Hazel. When a shooting party is planned, Hazel is  set up  by the others to defy James  proscription against her joining in the hunt. In a desperate effort to  fit in,  Hazel defies James and is nearly killed when her horse bolts. James is livid with his wife, with her behavior and and her self-imposed humiliation. Meanwhile, in an adjacent bedroom, an older, married gentleman attempts to seduce her. Hazel has had more than her fill of these antics and abruptly dashes back to London, leaves James behind and returns to the safe haven of Eaton Place.