<P> The Anabaptists return and agree to pay for goods to be transmuted into gold . These are in fact Mammon's goods . Dapper returns and is promised that he shall meet with the Queen of Fairy soon . Drugger brings Kastril who, on being told that Subtle is a skilled match - maker, rushes to fetch his sister . Drugger is given to understand that the appropriate payment might secure his marriage to the widow . Dapper is blindfolded and subjected to' fairy' humiliations; but on the reappearance of Mammon, he is gagged and hastily thrust into the privy . Mammon is introduced to Doll . He has been told that Dol is a nobleman's sister who has gone mad, but he is not put off, and pays her extravagant compliments . Kastril and his sister come again . Kastril is given a lesson in quarrelling, and the widow captivates both Face and Subtle . They quarrel over who is to have her . </P> <P> Surly returns, disguised as a Spanish nobleman . Face and Subtle believe that the Spaniard speaks no English and they insult him . They also believe that he has come for a woman, but Dol is elsewhere in the building' engaged' with Mammon, so Face has the inspiration of using Dame Pliant . She is reluctant to become a Spanish countess but is vigorously persuaded by her brother to go off with Surly . The tricksters need to get rid of Mammon . Dol contrives a fit and there is an' explosion' from the' laboratory' . In addition, the lady's furious brother is hunting for Mammon, who leaves . Surly reveals his true identity to Dame Pliant and hopes that she will look on him favourably as a consequence . Surly reveals his true identity to Face and Subtle, and denounces them . In quick succession Kastril, Drugger and Ananias return, and are set on Surly, who retreats . Drugger is told to go and find a Spanish costume if he is to have a chance of claiming the widow . Dol brings news that the master of the house has returned . </P> <P> Lovewit's neighbours tell him that his house had many visitors during his absence . Face is now the plausible Jeremy again, and denies the accusation--- he has kept the house locked up because of the plague . Surly, Mammon, Kastril and the Anabaptists return . There is a cry from the privy; Dapper has chewed through his gag . Jeremy can no longer maintain his fiction . He promises Lovewit that if he pardons him, he will help him obtain himself a rich widow (i.e., Dame Pliant). Dapper meets the "Queen of Fairy" and departs happily . Drugger delivers the Spanish costume and is sent to find a parson . Face tells Subtle and Dol that he has confessed to Lovewit, and that officers are on the way; Subtle and Dol have to flee, empty handed . </P> <P> The victims come back again . Lovewit has married the widow and claimed Mammon's goods; Surly and Mammon depart disconsolately . The Anabaptists and Drugger are summarily dismissed . Kastril accepts his sister's marriage to Lovewit . Lovewit pays tribute to the ingenuity of his servant, and Face asks for the audience's forgiveness . </P>

Summary of the play the alchemist by ben jonson