jim and connie have received no offers by the time charley and eadie return, and charley lends jim the $800 needed for the repairs. jim still wants to sell, however, as he is convinced that the building will drive them deeper into debt. connie and jim argue about the building and bobbie, of whom connie is still jealous, and jim storms out of their apartment to sleep in a hammock in the back yard. jim ends up sleeping in bobbie's empty apartment, as he knows that she is away on a modeling assignment, but the next morning, bobbie returns home, and connie mistakenly assumes that she and jim have spent the night together. connie's anger is deflected by a newspaper story concerning mrs. frazier, a woman she and jim saw in a nightclub with charley, who has been cheated by an "elderly casanova" named charley price. charley assures them that he truly loves eadie and has now retired. charley decides to leave and send for eadie later, but the police arrive before he can escape. as he is being taken away, charley reassures eadie that she is the only woman he has ever loved.