Miss Jenny Described
Miss Jenny is a brisk, airy girl of twenty, wearing a silver-laced hat instead of a cap, a blue riding-suit trimmed with tarnished silver, and carrying a whip.
The Old Usurer Described
The old usurer is a limping, decrepit figure in a worsted nightcap and slouched hat, with hollow, gummy eyes and sharp, wrinkled features that meet like nutcrackers when he speaks. He leans on an ivory-headed cane and wears layers of tattered, filthy clothing.
Captain Weazel Described
Captain Weazel is revealed to be a small, thin man of forty with a withered baboon-like face, long queue, and disproportionately long legs. Dressed in a bearskin frock, scarlet breeches, and worsted stockings, he carries a sword nearly as long as himself and resembles a spider or grasshopper standing erect.
A Quarrel Over a Private Room
Captain Weazel demands a private room with a fire for himself and his wife, but the landlord refuses. Miss Jenny objects to his pretensions, suggesting he wait for the other passengers to finish their meal if he insists on dining alone.
Miss Jenny’s Retorts
Incensed by the captain’s haughty manner, Miss Jenny launches a tirade, calling Mrs. Weazel a “ten-pound sneaker” and “quality-coupler,” and denouncing the captain as a “pitiful, trencher-scraping, pimping curler” who has purchased his commission dishonorably.
Supper Together
After the waggon master mediates the quarrel, the passengers reconcile and sit down to supper together.
Strap’s Midnight Mistake
At midnight, Strap rises to relieve himself but, in the darkness, mistakes the doors and enters Captain Weazel’s chamber, climbing into what he believes is his own bed.
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