Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of pregnancy loss, child death, animal death, and references to anti-Aboriginal racism.

The bones finally arrive. A hearse pulls up to the abbey, and men in masks take a casket out and place it in the good room. Bonaventure and Simone look over the casket together, and the men, sisters, and protagonist leave them alone. Afterward, Simone invites the men for tea and tells them they can take their masks off. While they sit, Helen Parry arrives. She wears plain clothes, abandoning the nun’s habit, and though she looks directly into the window the protagonist stares out of, the protagonist knows she does not see her.

Helen joins them briefly but shows no recognition of the protagonist. Richard Gittens also arrives, with new mouse traps, drawn by the sight of a hearse, and the protagonist watches as the men jump up to greet him. They shake his hand and talk loudly, glad to see another man in a female space. After the men leave, Simone allows the protagonist to show Richard the casket for Sister Jenny. The protagonist instructs Richard not to tell anyone about the remains.