Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.
- Byron returns to Don Juan after a short meditation. Juan comes down into the kitchen from his bedroom and sits at the table looking stunned. He and the Duchess Fitz-Fulke are the last to come down.
- The Duchess looks a little insulted, which suggests Juan rejected her sexual advances. But Byron hints in his last line that neither she nor Juan got much sleep…