and the prioress orders her to be made decent looking for her funeral. While greeting the other monks after recovering, Ambrosio notices that Valerio is not present, to which Father Andres says he is ill and will not permit anyone to see him. Ambrosio visits Valerio at night, and she reveals that only she can get herself the cure and will only do it if he allows her to stay. He agrees and accompanies her to the graveyard, where she descends into a hole leading into a grave. While waiting for her to return, Ambrosio sees Agnes’s ghost who accuses him of having sinned in the flesh and being responsible for her and her son’s death. Matilda returns healed and Ambrosio asks her what happened after she drew the poison out of him last night to which she says nothing and kisses him. While leaving Valerio’s room, Ambrosio is confronted by a monk who claims he knows that they are sinning together and will tell everyone tomorrow. While heading back to his room, the accusatory monk avoids certain dark areas of the monastery and is hit by a falling gargoyle in the rose garden. During that same night, Antonia’s mother is distraught and expresses regret for how her and Antonia’s life has turned out. The next morning, the dead monk is found, and while investigating the fallen gargoyle on the roof, Ambrosio sees the woman in crimson from his dream. It is revealed to be Antonia, who has come to request that Ambrosio visit her mother to bring her comfort. He agrees and goes to her, where Elvire confesses that she had a son before Antonia named Mateo, but that she left him behind when she fled from Madrid and the Marquis killed him out of spite. He eases her conscience by telling her it is okay because she was young, and if she had died she would not have had Antonia. Ambrosio gives another sermon to the masses, with Antonia in attendance, where he makes a show of putting on a crown of thorns. While Father Andres is cleaning his head injuries after, Ambrosio asks if his sermon was as persuasive as usual, and his friend insists that it was more so. He is then shown visiting Antonia in a garden, where he recites a Psalm at her request and attempts to kiss her. She demands he leave and