Therese complements Marie (Mother Agnes) for raising her so well, without spoiling her. Marie answers her question about how people with different amounts of glory in heaven can be happy. She fills a thimble and big glass tumbler to near overflowing, each to its capacity.

Therese recalls a vision she had of seeing a figure much like her father, but old, stooped and veiled, slowing walking through the garden. Her father was away on business, and the sisters could find no evidence of the stranger passing. It seemed to Therese, looking back now, to prefigure her father's coming suffering before his death.