This episode was a complex cocktail of sex, lies, secrets and class or caste warfare with a dash of the Cinderella story as a garnish.

Good news! Ralph and Madeline are engaged. Yes, Ralph Whelan finally put a ring on it and the Viceroy is throwing a lavish shindig to celebrate at the Viceregal Lodge. While the bride-to-be is ecstatic, the groom looks like someone is tightening a noose around his neck. But he has more on his plate than registering for silverware. At a meeting to discuss political power sharing Ralph supports Doctor Kamble, a representative of the Hindu ‘Untouchables’, aiming to get him to side with the British against the Congress party led by Gandhi. Where the English have class, India, the majority of whom are Hindu, is riven by caste, with untouchables at the bottom. Doctor Kamble is suspicious of Ralph’s motives; he asks Ralph how long his family has been in India. Ralph replies since 1832. Doctor Kamble wants to know why Ralph wants to help his people now after 100 years.

Ralph informs Doctor Kamble the high caste Brahmins won’t let the ‘Untouchables’ at the table once the British leave which seems to be inevitable. As a sign of good faith, he invites him to the engagement party, and sends Aafrin along to help make Dr. Kamble presentable. This move incurs the displeasure of the Viceroy who not only has a Maharajah as a guest but several prominent Brahmins as well. But Ralph insists that inviting Doctor Kamble is a risk that they need to take. “I’m asking you to trust me. If we win over the untouchables, we smash any chance of a deal between them and Congress!” he says to the Viceroy. Even his engagement party is a way for Ralph to continue to rise to political power. Aafrin too is under a great deal of pressure, from his parents to marry a suitable woman (not Sita who is Muslim), and from Ralph and the other Indians in the service who can’t understand how Aafrin could spent time with an ‘Untouchable.’ Dr. Kamble is philosophical about the whole thing. As a child, his house was burned down and his father hanged, for daring to draw water from the village well. He knows not to ask for too much.

Not everyone is jumping for joy now that Ralph and Madeline are engaged. Both Cynthia and Alice question his motives. Cynthia wants to know if Ralph actually has feelings for Madeline and Alice worries that Madeline wants to save Ralph. “I don’t know if I’m in love or just following orders,” Ralph confesses to Alice before placing his head in her lap. The big question is whether or not this wedding will actually come off since Cynthia also learns from Eugene that the Mathers have no money. It is a secret that has been kept even from Madeline. What Cynthia will do with this information is anyone’s guess! Madeline also is suspicious of Ralph’s feelings for his sister when she sees him make a gesture towards Alice that is less brotherly and more like a lover.

Missionary wife Sarah informs Alice what the price of her silence entails. She wants to sit at the high table with all the bigwigs at the engagement party. Alice tries to convince Ronnie Keane to move Sarah and her husband but Ronnie refuses. People are seated according to precedence. It wouldn’t do to have some lowly missionary wife sitting at the high table. Sarah does not take this news wealth and subtly threatens to reveal Alice’s secret. Alice is not too happy with Aafrin at the moment either. She read the note that he gave her and believes that he tried to use her to hurt Ralph. Aafrin tries to explain but Alice isn’t interested in his explanation. Aafrin later questions Sita about whether or not she actually gave his sister Sooni the note. Sita lies and says that she did, and accuses Sooni of lying to Aafrin, to hurt their relationship. Aafrin doesn’t know who to believe at this point.

Ian McLeod is at the club, getting drunk, and yelling at the patrons for not helping his uncle when they had the chance. Cynthia throws him out of the club. He later apologizes to Cynthia at the engagement party. Cynthia encourages Ian to ask Ranu Sood why he has employed him as his manager. Ranu tells him that he plans to help Ian learn some business skills in exchange for letting Ranu use a British name for his plantation. Seriously, everyone is using everyone in this series! It’s kind of brilliant.

Ralph and Madeline show up at the engagement party dressed as Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, which is an unfortunate choice. Alice comes up with a solution to Sarah’s blackmail; she simply lets Sarah sit in her place at the high table while she sits next to Sarah’s husband Dougie. When Leena decides against going to the engagement party, the orphans band together to put together an outfit for her to wear. She arrives at the party, sees Dougie looking longingly in her direction, and decides that she’s made a big mistake. Although Dr. Kamble feels incredibly uncomfortable at the dinner, despite Aafrin’s endorsement of Ralph, and Ralph taking his hand when he enters. It is only after he is embraced by the Maharajah who it turns out had banished the law against the untouchables in his region. The Vicereine then asks Dr. Kamble to waltz with her. Ralph’s gamble seems to have paid off!

Mr. Dalal and Sooni follow Sita through the marketplace, with Mr. Dalal pointing out that he thought Sita would be a bigger girl. He later tries to persuade his wife to accept Aafrin’s relationship with Sita but it may be too late. Alice and Aafrin finally talk about why Aafrin took the certificate. He promises to tell Ralph the truth but not before Alice pulls him off into the trees for some heavy smooching as it rains. But Ralph has secrets of his own. Adam and his mother show up at the Viceregal lodge, to present him to his natural father who just happens to be Ralph! Before they can confront him, Ralph has them tossed out rather violently and abruptly.