Kit gathers everyone at Hope’s End in Lenora’s bedroom and confronts them with the page that repeated “It’s all your fault,” saying Lenora identified her sister Virginia as the culprit. Because Virginia is dead, Kit argues that someone in the house must have entered the room and typed the message to frighten Lenora into silence. Mrs. Baker quickly turns the accusation back on Kit, suggesting Kit influenced Lenora’s yes-or-no responses and staged the entire scene for attention, while Archie stays unreadable and Carter and Jessie react uneasily.

When Kit insists that someone has been sneaking into Lenora’s room at night, Mrs. Baker is alarmed that Kit did not report it more forcefully before. The meeting ends without answers, and the others leave. Jessie lingers to say she does not believe Kit typed the message, so Kit pulls Jessie aside and bluntly asks whether Jessie did it as a prank. Jessie denies it and instead raises a new possibility: perhaps Lenora can do more than Kit thinks.

That idea intensifies Kit’s growing suspicion that Lenora may be hiding physical ability. Kit asks whether Mary ever thought Lenora might recover or regain movement, and Jessie says no, though she admits miracles are theoretically possible. Jessie then tells Kit that she is acting like Mary did, which unsettles Kit further because Kit already suspects Lenora may have lied repeatedly, moved more than she admits, and possibly turned off the Walkman herself.

After Jessie leaves, Kit tests Lenora directly. She transfers Lenora to the bed, examines Lenora’s legs and right arm, tickles Lenora’s palm, drops a crumpled page into Lenora’s hand, and then tries a book, looking for any reflex or concealed strength. Lenora does not react. Convinced that only something truly valuable might force an involuntary movement, Kit holds Lenora’s sentimental Eiffel Tower snow globe over Lenora’s hand. Lenora visibly panics, but when Kit drops it, Lenora still does not catch it, and the globe falls to the floor and shatters.

The break leads back into Lenora’s account of 1929. Young Lenora overhears Winston and Evangeline fighting about failing finances, the trust money meant for Lenora and Virginia, and Winston’s affair; then Winston reveals that Lenora is not his biological daughter. Virginia later tells Lenora that Evangeline had loved a servant before marrying Winston and cruelly uses the revelation to taunt her pregnant sister. Hoping her mother will understand Lenora’s own predicament, Lenora goes to Evangeline for help, only to find that Evangeline has just swallowed an entire bottle of laudanum and slips into silence as the bottle falls and breaks.