Laertes is stopping in at the mansion for sweet things--sugar and honey and molasses and chocolate chips--when he catches sight of the sign-up sheet. Delight fills him at the prospect of learning a new skill, especially given that he and Sagramore have been planning to build a distillery for several months now. Winemaking ought to provide them with a good foundation for making stronger liquors. He eagerly sets down his own name and Sagramore's; this task complete, he starts heading back to his own house.

... he realizes halfway there that this was not in fact the task that he came to the mansion to complete, and turns around again to pick up his sweets.