Kit spends the entire day beside Lenora as Lenora types her account and Kit assists with the shift key, carriage return, and fresh pages. Lenora insists on keeping the bedroom door closed, and the only interruption is Archie bringing lunch. Even with breaks for water, hand massage, meals, medicine, and bathing, Lenora remains intensely focused and eager to continue, producing seventeen pages by evening.

Because helping Lenora type requires constant attention, Kit cannot properly read the pages as they are written. While caring for Lenora through the rest of the nightly routine, Kit notices that Lenora stays deeply preoccupied, seemingly composing the next part of her story in her head. That determination reminds Kit of her own frustrated attempt to tell a reporter that she did not kill her mother, and the memory deepens Kit’s sympathy for Lenora as a woman who may also want to proclaim her innocence.

After putting Lenora to bed and agreeing to stay until she falls asleep, Kit finally sits down and reads the pages. She is surprised by how strong Lenora’s writing is, but her admiration quickly turns to alarm as the contents make Lenora appear more guilty, not less. Lenora writes that she threw the knife used to kill Winston and Evangeline Hope into the ocean, that her nightgown was covered in blood, and that she fetched a rope while her sister screamed elsewhere in the house.

Kit tries to explain some of Lenora’s language about being both good and evil by thinking about Lenora’s unhappy family life and youthful confusion, but the concrete details are harder to dismiss. The blood, the missing murder weapon, and Lenora’s actions during the murders suggest concealment rather than innocence. Kit then reaches Lenora’s closing lines, in which Lenora says she was not a good girl and promises Kit will soon see for herself.

Watching Lenora sleep, Kit realizes she may have completely misunderstood why Lenora wanted to tell this story. Kit had believed Lenora saw them as two falsely accused women trying to clear their names together. Instead, Kit now fears Lenora chose her because Lenora believes Kit is guilty too, and that Lenora’s typed account is not a defense but a confession.