The Marquis de Fervlans, posing as an Austrian officer rides with his soldiers into Katalin's manor. He plans to meet Count Vavel by chance, but this always fails. He orders his soldiers to capture the count, but instead a strange creature living in the lake being trapped. The cruel treatment of the creature prompts Katalin to save the count from a duel with the marquis. The count's faithful butler suffers a stroke and dies.
—mrtanaka