Inspector Cranio continues to investigate as he wants to discover the reason why Susillo has committed suicide. He goes to talk to a prostitute, La Roldana, who he also visits, and the woman tells him that Susillo never visited her. Cranio is surprised because he doesn't understand why the man waited twenty years to remarry and how he didn't use prostitutes.
Princess Luisa Fernanda keeps reminiscing with Cecilia Bohl the Faber and Antoine de Latour, her late husband's assistant. They talk about when she married Antonio. Initially, she and her sister were to marry their cousins Francisco de Asís and Enrique, and there was an agreement with the British government in which Spanish royalty shouldn't marry the French royalty. That agreement was broken when María Cristina announced to Luisa Fernanda that she would marry Antonio, Duke of Montpensier. Isabel would marry Francisco de Asís, the cousin, whose virility many doubted. Queen Victoria was incensed by the treason of the Queen Mother, and nobody went to the wedding. It was a double wedding, and Isabel was not very happy with her groom. The reception of Antonio was lukewarm because the Spaniards still remembered what the French did in Spain. People weren't interested in the weddings as they were still sore by Fernando VII's betrayal as he had promised to respect the constitution, and when he returned, he restored absolutism.
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