After dinner, Kit brings Lenora to the typewriter instead of doing her exercises because Mary Milton's death has left the house quiet and oppressive. Kit confronts Lenora about lying that Mary was afraid of Virginia, and Lenora explains that it was not a lie in Lenora's mind: Mary insisted their typing sessions remain secret because Mary was scared. Lenora also confirms that Mary, not Lenora, bought the typewriter and proposed recording Lenora's story.

As Kit presses further, Lenora admits that she and Mary had been working for weeks and that Mary heard everything, including the full truth about Lenora, Ricky, and the 1929 murders. Lenora says they finished the story on the very night Mary "left." That timing makes Kit doubt Detective Vick's conclusion that Mary jumped, especially when Lenora sadly confirms that she never believed Mary simply went away and believes Mary died because of what Lenora told her.

Kit then asks what happened to the pages from Lenora and Mary's earlier work. Lenora says Mary hid them in Mary's room, which is now Kit's room. Alarmed that the written truth may have been hidden there all along, Kit searches the dresser, bed, lockbox, bookshelf, bathroom, and closet but finds no stack of pages.

In the closet, Kit notices a clean rectangular patch on the dusty floor and realizes something with rounded corners had recently sat there. When she compares the space to her own suitcase, she concludes Mary took a suitcase when she left. The metal rings on Kit's suitcase handle match the bent piece of metal Kit found on the terrace, convincing Kit that Mary's missing suitcase may have held Lenora's manuscript and that both vanished together. Shaken by the implication that Mary was killed after learning the truth, Kit goes to the kitchen phone near midnight and tells Detective Vick that Mary Milton did not jump but was pushed.