 Her husband learns of her lie and comes to his former partner's aid; she is furious.He accuses Joyce of being callous and breaks off the conversation “before I tell you the truth about yourself.”

A return to the present, where David and girl friend Eileen Benson, alone in her apartment, are photographed through a window by the detective Joyce hired.He asks Eileen to marry him, to save her reputation, but she says no.