Chapter XVIII
How Margaret steps into the Breach, and learns that all Peacemakers are not blessed
Chapter XIX
How Margaret and Tita tread many Paths; and how Fortune, having turned her Back on Tita, shows a smiling Front to Maurice
Chapter XX
How Margaret starts as a special Pleader, and is much worsted in her Argument; and how a simple Knock at the Hall Door scatters one Being who delights in War