The next day boy goes to look the announcement that the priest has died, and then wanders about, further puzzling about his dream of escape and about his relastionship with the priest.
The night boy and his aunt go to the house of mourning. They view the corpse with nannie, and then they sit with the sisters elizia and nannie. They are offered food and drink, and then elizia and the aunt carry on a conversation that reveals the Father Flynn had apparently suffered a mental breakdown after accidently breaking a chalice the dialogue then trails off.
