Sara is bedridden with a high fever which Becky tries to treat on her own, since she, James and Molly must do all the work. She is then treated by the chronically-inebriated Dr. Wild. Concerned that the Seminary will be quarantined, the Headmistress tells the students to avoid Sara. Ermengarde visits her anyway, suggesting that her Aunt Eliza compound a medicine which reduces her fever.