After Archie leaves, Carter comes to Lenora’s room looking exhausted from spending the night on the unstable third floor. Kit asks about the damage outside, and Carter says the lawn now has a large hole where the ground gave way. The house’s worsening condition makes Kit wonder how much more Hope’s End can shift before it collapses.

Kit pulls Carter aside and tells him that Lenora confirmed she was pregnant in 1929 but refused to say what happened to the baby. Carter immediately wonders whether the child was born and, unspoken, whether the baby could have been connected to his own family line. Kit says Archie already lied by denying Lenora had ever been pregnant, which makes Kit suspect Archie is deliberately hiding the truth and may also have wanted to keep Mary from learning it.

The conversation sharpens both of their fears. Carter worries that Archie may now see Kit as dangerous because she is asking too many questions, while Kit privately questions whether forcing the past into the open is helping anyone or simply serving her own need to prove something. Even so, Kit tells Carter they still have only theories, not facts, and Carter leaves after warning that he trusts no one in the house except Kit.

Preparing to resume Lenora’s nightly routine, Kit returns to find Lenora apparently unchanged in her wheelchair by the window. But when Kit removes the headphones, the Walkman has stopped playing. Kit tests every ordinary explanation: Lenora’s left hand never moved, the tape has not reached its end, and the batteries still work because Jessie’s recorded voice starts again when Kit presses play. From these facts, Kit reaches a startling conclusion: Lenora must have turned off the Walkman herself with the hand she claims she cannot use.