 When he leaves, Ada is crushed, but she agrees to go through with the marriage her father intends for her.Her fiancé Richard Chivy arrives, actually as drunk as Garrick was just pretending to be, and he tells the Ingots about how he just met David Garrick at his club and listened to him tell a story of how he had spent an evening pretending to be a scoundrel so as to cure a girl of her attraction to him.Chivy does not recognise that the story is about Ada and her father, though they both recognise themselves, and Ada is cheered by the news.