Margaret and Mr. Wilcox are with Dolly at Charles’s house as they prepare to leave for Howards End. Margaret is nervous and Mr. Wilcox suggests that she stay behind and let him go alone, but she refuses. After she goes to fix herself up upon his suggestion, Mr. Wilcox tells Dolly that he will go alone. However, when the car runs over some flowers, Dolly screams. Margaret rushes out and catches up to the car. Mr. Wilcox apologizes, and Margaret feels that she deserves this deception since she is similarly deceiving Helen.

On the way to Howards End they pick up a doctor, who asks about Helen. Mr. Wilcox goes on to talk about Helen, describing her as “highly strung.” Margaret finds the questions and Mr. Wilcox’s presumptuousness in answering them insulting, and she fears that they are trapping Helen like an animal.

They find Helen on the porch, and Margaret runs out to greet her, closing the gate in Mr. Wilcox’s face. She sees that Helen is pregnant, and she brings her inside the house.

Back outside the house, Margaret holds the keys and prevents Mr. Wilcox and the doctor from going inside to see Helen.