As they amble home, a foreign gentleman hears their footsteps and takes them for prostitutes returning from the bagnio. He accompanies them "for some Streets Length", though for scarcely innocent or benign reasons, and the result is that, when they run into a constable, he too assumes that they are "three of the bettermost sort of Street-Walkers". This constable, who announces that it is "his Duty to keep the Streets clear of People, that had no real Business in them", threatens to put them in the Roundhouse for the remainder of the night. But the street-smart Mrs Flim bribes him. Finally, resuming their journey home by coach, they pass a couple of men "pretty much in Liquor, staggering along Arm in Arm together". It is Dorimant and Sprightly. The two men stop the coach, climb into it, and immediately start kissing the two women, whom they have failed to recognise as their wives. They realise their embarrassing error once the coach has deposited them all at the same address.