In which a grand feast is held at the marquis’s estate, bringing together visitors of many ranks beneath the chestnut boughs and moonlit sky, while the lively music of pipes and fiddles stirs the company into a generous and unguarded mirth. Amid this joyous hubbub, young Malcolm’s keen eye pursues a shadowy intrigue that leads him through twisting passages and twilight groves, revealing a darker disturbance beneath the evening’s gaiety.