- It is Tereza's turn. She refuses to wear the blindfold because she is too scared to enter death's antechamber.
- One of the men walks her over to a tree. Finally, she blurts out, "But it wasn't my choice" (4.13.6).
- The men stop and tell her that, if this is true, then they do not have the right to kill her.
- Tereza turns toward the tree and bursts into tears.