During the dinner at the festivities where Ibarra is grossly insulted over the moemory of his father by Fray Damaso. The young man loses control of himself and about to kill the friar, who is saved by the interventio of Maria Clara.
Crisostomo Ibarra, Maria Clara, Kapitan Tiago, Padre Damaso, Sisa, Basilio, Elias
On the evening when Kapitan Tiago gives a ball in Manila to celebrate his supposed daughter's engagement, Ibarra makes his escape from prison and succeeds in seeing Maria Clara alone.
Chrisostomo Ibarra is a young Filipino who are engaged to a beautiful and accomplished girl Maria Clara, the supposed daughter and only child of the rich Don Kapitan Tiago