Barnabas does ingest blood, so I suppose his metabolism does something with it.... I suppose MT is right about his room at the Old House.
Meanwhile, his portrait is finally done and hanging above the mantel in the drawing room.
Poor Willie is mortified at the girls' praise and terrified for them at the same time. But after he ushers them out of Josette's room, instead of seeing them out of the house, he stays to straighten things up--dreading another beating, I suppose, if just one little thing is out of place.
And we end with dinner for two....