Part 5 Chapter 1 Summary

Three months have passed since the murders. Ivar, Signa and Nelse are staying with Alexandra. Signa worries that Alexandra's grief is too deep and she is wandering graveyards. Ivar says the dead will comfort her. Ivar takes Emil's horse to the graveyard to find Alexandra. It is raining.

Alexandra says that the rain is her worst time for mourning and that it has helped her to be in the graveyard with Emil in the rain. It brings back the darkness before he was born. Ivar says the dead are in Paradise although secretly he does not think Emil is in Paradise. Back at her home, Alexandra lies alone in the dark. She has her fantasy of being lifted up by a strong man. This time she can see him in her doorway.

The next morning Alexandra wakes up with the idea...