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| Back at the sailing club house, Pierre tells Laure what he has learned, but does not mention that he himself may have been the trigger for the aunt's suicide. That night, Laure wakes Pierre to tell him that she has just had an important dream wishes to talk about it. In the dream, she was a high-ranking official in a military dictatorship of which her aunt was the president. The aunt has been ordering Laure to commit various atrocities on behalf of the state, a task that increasingly sickens her. The dream ended inconclusively as Laure, plyars in hand, was once more approaching the torture chamber. Laure says that the dream has shown her that her anger towards the state was really only a metonymic redirection |
| of her anger towards her aunt. She realises from this that the murderous acts she inteded to perpetrate in the name of revolution would actually have been a symptom of her enslavement to this anger rather than a liberation from it. Now, free at last of the aunt's influence, Laure wishes only pursue the dream she had as a child of becoming a professional watercolourist. Pierre, delighted, tells her that he too has the soul of an artist and they spend the night in passionate discourse about their mutual interests. In the morning, tired by happy, they quietly depart from the house to board a train for Pierre's home town. At the train station, Pierre is arrested by a policeman who shows him a photograph of himself (Pierre) depositing the valise outside the aunt's room. Pierre explains that there has been a misunderstanding and he and Laure leave to begin their new life together. [end] |
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