With golden chrysanthemums on the judge’s bench, the Attorney General announces that the Crown offers no evidence against Harriet Vane. Sir Impey Biggs insists she leave without a stain on her character, noting that new information proves her innocent and another arrest has been made. The Attorney General agrees, the judge congratulates her, and the jury returns a verdict of not guilty.

Outside, Eiluned Price and Sylvia Marriott greet Harriet, who wants to thank Lord Peter Wimsey, but he drove off the moment the verdict came. Eiluned says he is too decent to call and that Harriet will have to send for him. That evening at Duke’s Denver, the Duke demands Wimsey stop Lady Mary from marrying Parker. Wimsey defends Charles and announces that he intends to marry the prisoner, if she will have him.

• The gallery cheering and the judge warning it is not a theatre or a football match
• Harriet discharged and the court moving straight on to the next case
• Eiluned taking off her hat to Wimsey for not playing King Cophetua
• Sylvia’s claim that she was right about the murderer and will be right about this
• The Dowager calmly making a rug amid the family uproar