The bride, a countess since her father-in-law has died, holds court without her husband. While her hair is being dressed, she chats with Counsellor Silvertongue, the lawyer who helped arrange her marriage. Her infatuation with him is obvious: Hogarth has her Negro page pointing at the horns of a figure of the mythological hunter Actaeon; once again the artist has made use of the symbol of a cuckolded husband. The entertainment is provided by a pudgy male singer, accompanied by a flutist.
