one day, when he is, somewhere back in act two, one day he is visiting the alchemist he catches sight of this woman, doll, quite obviously a prostitute, probably an a an absolutely  erm  catches sight of her and says, i must quickly think up some reason why this woman is, is in the house  cos  sir epicure manhom thinks the alchemist is a pure, homely  er priest-like creature yet in fact, he's running a whorehouse.