Thérèse has heard Léonie wait outside her door and then descend the stairs. Later she hears Baptiste arrive home. Thérèse thinks about how Baptiste supposedly despised her after she spied on the couple making love. Thérèse believes that Léonie made sure that Thérèse was a witness. Léonie comes into Thérèse's room, and she smokes as she asks Thérèse why she has come back. Thérèse tells Léonie that she is thinking of leaving the monastery and that there is some unfinished business she must attend to. Léonie says she will kill Thérèse if she brings up anything else about the past. Léonie tells Thérèse that for twenty years she has pretended that Thérèse.....
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