 An alehouse owner, Mr. Reddish, arrives with his daughter Nell, to whom Jelf is actually engaged.Reddish is anxious to get Nell off his hands as she is a prohibitionist reformer and has turned his pub into a coffee house, to the disgust of Mr. Reddish's cronies, one of whom happens to be Jelf's uncle.Reddish hopes to marry Nell to Jelf, if necessary by force.