Pansity is wearing the pretty yellow dress she wore in her happy dream of dancing with Quentin. Using all her wits and strength, she manages to keep him awake until Barnabas arrives, and then Angelique.
I suppose the Devil is betting that Angelique will never get any man to fall in love with her--at least not until, um, say, hell freezes over.
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Angelique tells Quentin, It must be wonderful to be loved the way you love Amanda. It happens only once in a lifetime, Quentin agrees. (Beth who?) To ordinary people, yes, Angelique says, but I imagine you will fall in love again. We both have a very long life ahead. But I won’t have any lifetime unless you help me, Quentin points out. Angelique says, Suppose I don't ask you to pay the price now. Suppose I agree to wait. And then someday... somewhere... long after Amanda Harris has ceased to exist, you and I would meet again. You could pay your debt to me then. [As far as I know, Angelique never collects the debt.]
After shooing Pansity out, Angelique sits by the now-lit fire and tries to put a spell on Petofi. C/P starts to go upstairs but returns to listen at the doors just when Angelique tells Barnabas that Petofi is at Charles Delaware Tate’s studio. Count Petofi, she orders, turn your thoughts away from Quentin and scatter them as the wind scatters the ashes of the dead! But Barnabas senses that something is wrong. Angelique says, My powers don’t seem to be affecting Petofi at all--his trance is so deep that I can’t reach his mind. C/P listens as they wake Quentin up again. Is there any way to reach Petofi? Barnabas asks in frustration. Angelique recalls, Petofi captured me at the mill by forcing me to fight two enemies at once--his Hand and fire. If I can divert his thoughts while doing him some personal harm, I could break his concentration. You’ll need some personal item, Barnabas points out. Angelique agrees, but it would be impossible to get one. Outside the doors, C/P sniffs, Nothing is impossible if you want it badly enough. Angelique decides, instead of waiting for the train at Collinsport, we must get Quentin to Bangor and put him on a train to Boston and from there to New York. I will get the carriage, Barnabas says, and I’ll bring Charity back to help with Quentin. Angelique shakes Quentin awake yet again. Barnabas goes out, sees that the foyer is empty, and thinks C/P must be in her room--but C/P has already sacrificed her chance to say goodbye to Quentin. Angelique runs out to get the carriage. I’ll never make it to New York, Quentin says in despair. Go to New York and search for Amanda, Barnabas tells him. I’ll stay and search for the portrait. They arrange to meet in New York at the Enfield Hotel (where Amanda told Quentin she stayed when she met Tim). Barnabas swears that all of them will do everything they can to make sure that it is all right.
In the woods near Charles’s studio, C/P carries on an internal argument, then reminds herself sternly, Pansy Faye never missed a show in her life! She opens the door and finds Petofi still in his trance. She moves toward him quietly, thinking to undo his tie. But he wakes up instantly and grabs her hands. You have interfered in my plans once too often, Miss Trask, he tells her. This time you will be sorry for it!....
