In which we witness the tumult wrought by a biting newspaper libel and the ensuing spectacle of domestic discord, revealing how passions and misunderstandings may stir even the most composed of minds. Our worthy friends, amid their own anxieties, are startled by a summons that threatens to embroil their innocent leader in a most perplexing legal entanglement, all under the watchful gaze of those who know more than they confess.