 Felix wonders why his American relatives seem so little concerned for the pleasures of life, living by strict standards, seeming not to think of their own individual happiness.Eugenia sets her eyes on the Wentworth's wealthy cousin Robert Acton, who is torn between his captivation with the Baroness and his distrust of her European worldliness.Eugenia refers little to her marriage other than telling him she has a paper the husband's family wishes her to sign which would dissolve the marriage.