Summary

While Antal was out, Ettie had enjoyed her bath and found that she did not feel afraid of being alone in the house. In fact, she had felt herself coming back to life, for the first time since Vince's death, and this lead her to go out into the evening, in search of him. She catches the tram to Balzsamarok, and does not even mind when the conductress tells her off for not having change, because her accent reminds Ettie that she is home. At the end of the tram line, she gets off and can feel Vince more strongly than anywhere else. She had not felt his presence in the cemetery, and only vaguely at the house.

She speaks to the nightwatchman who is guarding the new buildings in the estate, and gets his permission to sit by the well...