One of William's noble students, Lucian Atwood, goes missing. William learns Lucian is dating a waitress named Frida. Dudley Bale, an administrative assistant for the university, advises William to ignore the situation. William learns from Frida's employer that Lucian had proposed marriage, despite Frida being a commoner, and she became pregnant. A man had later visited Frida and claimed Lucian no longer wanted to marry her, so Frida threw herself off a bridge and drowned. It is revealed that Dudley staged Frida's murder as a suicide then drugged and imprisoned Lucian in a brothel. William contacts two men, Sebastian Moran and Fred Pollock...