In her room, Lady Dedlock pleads with her servant, Duke Jane, to let her go. Jane refuses, saying that she has already done so under the King's orders. She says that she will protect her brother now that he is no longer a threat to her. She tells her servant that the wound on her hand is still there and that she should stop practicing medicine. Jane says that her brother is all she has left and she must protect him now. She promises to go to the court and bring the clergy with her