Andrei and Natasha secretly get engaged, but Andrei goes away for a year to make sure it is true love. While he is away, Natasha meets Anatole, Helene’s brother, and madly falls in love with him. She almost elopes with him, even though he is already married to a Polish girl, but her family stops her from this horrible mistakes. Meanwhile, the Rostov family wants Nikolai to marry the heiress of a fortune, but instead he declares his love for Sonya. Pierre helps Boris join the Freemason fraternity and Boris tries to find a rich wife to get married to.