This scene takes place in Jilo's house, where she is depicted peeling cassava. Lansana, Jilo's lover, appears, He is one of the warriors in Senehun. Jilo is in love with Lansana but married to Ndapi. Lansana is seen begging Jilo for sexual favours. Jilo refuses these advances, asking Lansana to look for other ladies outside. Then Lansana starts praising Jilo's body: 'See how smooth it is, as smooth as the back of a bridal calabash.' He implies that if he cannot persuade Jilo, he will have her by force; and this is exactly what he does.

Suspense grows when Ndapi and Lavalie discuss in the opposite direction shortly after Lansana forces Jilo into the house. This makes it seem like they might soon be caught. In reality, Ndapi and Lavalie are talking about Mama Yoko's decision to go to war. They are worried about the strange circumstances of Gbanya's death and Mama Yoko's fears for her safety. Ndapi thinks Lavalie should tell Mama Yoko not to fight with the other chiefdoms. They leave to figure out how to stop Mama Yoko from going to war.

Then, Lansana and Jilo come out of the house after making love. Jilo asks Lansana to leave before Ndapi returns to meet him in the house. Lansana arranges his next meeting with Jilo and then leaves. Ndapi returns. He is angry that there is no food in the house. He punishes Jilo by stepping on her toe literally. Guard enters to save Jilo from Ndapi's brutality. Ndapi denies touching Jilo, whereas he has stepped on her toe. He slaps Jilo, complaining to Guard about not always finding food whenever he comes home.

Guard has come to report the war news to Ndapi who fears that heads would roll. Ndapi says that Mama Yoko could not be persuaded not to go to war and that she trusts the colonial Masters like Governor Rowe too much.  Ndapi sees Mama Yoko as 'greedy, insolent and power drunk and very, very ambitious.' He does not believe that the chiefdom should be expanded. Ndapi talks about killing and dragging the enemy soldiers into slavery during Gbanya's reign when they used to fight honourable wars. He describes the proposed Mama Yoko wars as vain' and 'provocative! Guard deploys a proverb to analogise the situation: 'She is putting her palm kernels into the fire and using our own fingers to pull them out of the flames !!” Guard believes that Mama Yoko should be in bed beside a virile man, not on the throne of Senehun.

Both Guard and Ndapi leave to look for palm wine. Ndapi threatens Jilo, as he leaves, about beating her till she crawls back to her parents if he returns and sees no food in the house. Then Jilo mumbles something that Ndapi interprets as an insult Ndapi comes back to slap her but Guard intervenes: '. .. when a woman under your roof starts grumbling, the next thing she will think of doing is poison your food'. Jilo says she was mumbling that Mama Yoko had said that they might be moving to Moyamba in the hot season. This means that Moyamba would now be the new capital of the Chiefdom. Ndapi concludes that power is making Mama Yoko crazy.