success. Meanwhile, Jerry and Osgood dance until dawn. Back at the hotel, Jerry announces that he has accepted Osgood's proposal of marriage - anticipating a divorce and cash settlement when the ruse is revealed - but Joe convinces him not to go through with it.

The hotel hosts a conference for the Friends of Italian Opera Society, a front for a national Mafia meeting, presided over by Little Bonaparte - who already has a grudge against Spats over the murder of Toothpick. Spats and his men arrive, and this time see through Joe and Jerry's