 He convinces her that her father loves her and that she should listen to him.Ingot overhears this and decides that David Garrick is a better man than Chivy, who by now has left in pursuit of Garrick's housemaid, and so he agrees to allow Ada to marry him.One of the play's defining moments is the point when Garrick's feigned drunkenness appears to work, and Ada forces him to leave the party.