Eleanor, Adelaide, and Brody keep a rotating vigil in case Beatrice returns, but she never does. In the morning, Eleanor makes a list of things they could try to find Beatrice, while Adelaide finds a dog, whom she swears has been yowling. She entreats the baker next door to keep an eye out for Beatrice and brings the dog back to the tea shop, adopting it.

Lena’s ghost hovers over Beatrice as she sleeps. When she wakes, Lena confirms Beatrice is a witch and tells her about the Reverend, the parsonage, and the Collectors—a pair of ghouls—who came for her body. She tells her the Collectors take the bodies of witches for their employer, the architect, Palsham. When she spells out his name, it becomes Malphas, the name of the demon the First Witch fought.

The Reverend enters and refuses to let Beatrice leave. He forces her to eat bread that smells like urine. When she cannot, he claims it confirms she is bewitched. He demands that she disrobe completely. She refuses, and he hits her head with his walking stick, making her lose consciousness. When she wakes, Townsend searches her body for what he calls the witch’s mark. When he finds a birthmark Beatrice has had all her life, he retrieves a white-hot iron rod with a double-V emblem and sits it on her mark, burning her skin.