- Lord Cheldthorpe and Cassiopeia totally hit it off—they flirt and flirt and flirt some more.
- Octavian's not so into their flirtation, though, and at one point he acts out by throwing and breaking Cassiopeia's crayons, even though he says he's just drawing an erupting volcano.
- Things are going so well with Lord Cheldthorpe's visit that he offers to fund a field trip to the wilds of New York (and no, we don't mean Manhattan—we're talking actual wilderness here).
- Mr. Gitney tells everyone at the College that the goal of the trip will be threefold: to woo Lord Cheldthorpe into seeing how the New World can be profitable, pleasurable, and important to science.