Chapter 7 Summary

The priest wakes the next morning feeling much better, but still arranges to see a doctor in Lille. While arranging for another priest to care for his parish while he is away, the priest meets with Mlle Louise who is in an awful state of dishevel. She comes to the priest because she has not yet been paid her final wages. The priest begs her to have pride in herself and move to another part of the country instead of continuing to hang around this area of France. Mlle Louise warns the priest of Mlle Chantal's hatred toward him. She tells him that Mlle Chantal even knows of the priest's sickness and his encounter with Seraphita in the lane.

Next in his diary, the priest records that Seraphita comes in late to the priest's last catechism class. He notices she is limping. The...