Hero does not like Revesby. She is naive and silly at times but she instinctively knows that he is a bad influence on her husband. Sherry worries about his young wife, because she does seem to get into trouble quite often.. and she has noone to teach her the ways of Society.
He continues to over spend and both he and Hero gamble. One evening, Hero and Sherry are with friends, including Revesby, when a young woman with a baby comes up to him, and tells him that the child is his, and she has no money. Revesby unkindly cuts her and says she is mad, but Hero takes her home. Sherry complies and he begins to see a major flaw in his friend.
Hero insists that they take in the girl and her baby, who was a servant at an inn when Revesby was visiting a relative, and they give her a job at Sherry's hunting lodge. Soon after Ruth's arrival in his house, Sherry finds that his wife went to the house of a courtesan, Charlotte Gillingham, who was one of Montagu's mistresses and lost a lot of money gambling. He finds out through the good nature of one of his own ex mistresses, Nancy, who saw Hero at the house, playing cards and looking very unhapppy. He thanks Nancy for telling him, and Hero tells him the whole story. Sherry realises that Revesby was trying to cause trouble in his house, because it was Hero who made him look bad by taking in his mistress and child. He visits Revesby, but the older man refuses to be drawn into a row, because he is too cowardly to fight and does not want to fall out with his rich friend.
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