Aristede races to Collinwood to tell Trask of Evan Hanley's murder, and in his haste is overheard by Judith, who then goes to Tim Shaw to find out why Evan employed Tim to investigate Trask's absence during Judith's stay at the sanitarium. Shaw informs her Trask has been visiting a respectable widow named Mrs. Curry, whom Trask had told of Minerva's death but neglected to mention that he had remarried. Trask and Mrs. Curry had a romance, but when Mrs. Curry discovered Trask had remarried, she committed suicide. Judith is incensed, and asks Tim to help her get revenge on Trask.