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(Two Days Later)
Jack Point is now in a quandary. He has agreed to Elsie's marrying the imprisoned Fairfax because he was assured that Fairfax would die within the hour. Now that Fairfax has escaped Elsie is still a married woman, and Jack Point cannot himself marry her. He conceives a plan, however. With the dazzling bribe of a free schooling in the trade of a jester he persuades Wilfred to help him in his scheme. They move off mysteriously.
Meanwhile Fairfax has learned of the identity of the woman whom he married and resolves to woo her and thus test her fidelity. A shot from the tower sets everyone agog and an excited crowd quickly gathers. Wilfred and Point both appear with an air of importance. Wilfred asserts that he has had a desperate struggle with Colonel Fairfax, whom he discovered in a dark corner of the battlements. Fairfax, after a cunning twist, eluded Wilfred and dived into the river. Wilfred, however, was equal to the occasion and shot Fairfax with his arquebus as he swam in the Thames. All this Jack Point endorses most heartily.
Elsie admits to the supposed Leonard Meryll that she loves him, when there is an interruption. A pardon for Fairfax has arrived, and simultaneously comes news that Fairfax is returning to claim his bride. Poor Elsie is distracted: she must follow Fairfax, though her heart is elsewhere. There is much musical analysis of love.
Fairfax comes. Elsie comes forward with bowed head, lamenting her cruel fate. She looks up and with a start she sees that the "Leonard" she loves is none other than this
