At Satan's ball, in chapter 23, Margarita serves as queen and receives a line of dead guests, criminals of every kind. At the end, Woland turns Berlioz's head into a goblet, and, as payment for the ball, Margarita receives the Master back.
Korovyov explains that Woland holds the full-moon ball every year and that his hostess must be called Margarita and be a native of the city. Of the one hundred and twenty-one Margaritas found in Moscow, none had the desired profile, until a happy coincidence led her there. Up the staircase climb suicides, poisoners, hanged people, executioners, and traitors. A young woman, Frida, repeats her own name as if asking for help: thirty years earlier a governess had put on her nightstand the handkerchief with which she smothered her son. Margarita tells her to drink and not think about anything.
At the end, Berlioz's head arrives on a platter. Woland tells her the prophecy has come true, "a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world," and applies to Berlioz his own theory, that death is the end of everything: the head becomes a goblet. Then Azazello kills Baron Meigel, of whom, according to Woland, gossip said he might be a spy, and who had requested the visit to look and listen to everything. Woland offers Margarita the goblet filled with his blood.
After the ball, Margarita asks for nothing, and Woland approves: "Never ask for anything!" Then he offers her a request. The first is for Frida; Woland says that does not count, because he did nothing, and only in the second request does Margarita receive the Master back, still in his hospital dressing gown.