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| As they return home, a telephone rings. Mason is speaking and then hangs up. He says it was CC, who has invited them to the Independence Day party and he rejected the invitation. |
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| Mary says she would like to go and she does not care if anybody rumored about the fight of Mason and Mark in the restaurant. Mason asks her again to file a charge against Mark. Mary says he does not want it, and she wants to return to the normal life. |
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| Mason says he cannot leave everything as it is, because he it hurts him. Mary answers it is her choice and her pain. Mason says it is not only hers. |
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| Mary and Mason come to the party. CC approaches them and says he had a word with the cardinal and the latter agreed to talk to Mary and Mark. |
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| Mason says they have to leave this idea. Mary adds Mark changed his mind to give her divorce. CC says he could talk to Mark but Mason assures him that the situation is under his control. |
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| Mason and Mary return home. They liked the party and are going to have a nice night together. Mark interrupts them with the phone call, he wants to see Mary. She reluctantly agrees. |
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| Mason does not what Mary to go alone to see Mark. He says he does not trust McCormic and does not want Mary to be with Mark face to face. Mary argues that she must make Marks admit the annulment. Mason suggests that he goes with her but Mary does not want him to go. They are arguing and in the end Mary goes alone. |
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| She meets Mark at the "Orient-Express", Mary asks him to admit the annulment but Mark refuses to do it. Mary reminds him that she will not stay with him anyway. Mark tries to persuade Mary that she had feelings toward him and Mason has just hypnotized her and bent her to his will. He says he knows that she is pregnant with his child, not Mason's. Mary says that even if he denies having raped her, he never was a good husband, he lied her and picked up prostitutes. She says their marriage was a big mistake and offers correcting it by the annulment. Mark says it is also her mistake. Mary admits it but says it changes nothing. |
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| Mark says he is determined to prevent the annulment any way. Mary says that in this case she is determined to file for divorce and abandon the church. Mark does not believe she is ready to abandon the church because of "affairs with Mason". He says the divorce would change nothing and after the baby's birth he will file for custody. Mary tries to shame him and says that no court in the world would give the child to the rapist. |
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| Mark begins talking about their love again. Mary answers that there was no love between them and she married him only because she thought he was dying. She always loved only Mason. She considered Mark to be a good person in spite of Janice's warnings but now she sees she was wrong. Mark says he will not let her go and suggests that she should choose between Mason and the child. |
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Mary meets Sister Isabel and tells her about her decision to abandon the church. She says she has no choice and asks to forgive her. Sister Isabel says that, being her friend, she will forgive Mary but the church - it is strict. She says Mary should act in accordance with her conscience.
Mason is on a twit when Mary finally returns home.
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| She tells him about the conversation with Mark and about him threat to file for custody. |
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| Mason says he will have Mark's doctor's license annulled and subpoena Janice. Mary does not want to revenge. |
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| Mason says she should file a charge for rape but she does not want to do it. Then he promises to do it himself. |
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