Maria:
It wasn't very much different from the ordinary days. I was alone, dazing as always. Whenever I start thinking, I couldn't help but come across the day when that terrible thing happened...
Ah! But then, Lucilla came and visited me. We have been close friends since childhood. Lucilla took me out for a change. ...We had a very good time, which I have missed for so long.
Then it got too late so both of us spent the night in Gludin. The next day Lucilla went back home and I went back to mine. When I arrived everything was in a mess and the scroll that I had kept in the locker had disappeared. All I could find was the handbag that Lucilla had left behind.
"The handbag will give us some clue."