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England for Jill's funeral, with the Countess begging them not to return. Emily also asks not to be taken back to Italy, but Michael intends to finish his documentary and solve the mystery of the painting. In their absence, the Countess returns to the gallery. She discovers someone has painted over elements of the painting that revealed a young girl resembling Emily possessing the sword and the medallion and has a vision of Michael pounding on the gallery's doors. She also has a vision of a girl playing piano and hiding letters in its body from another time. She uncovers an abandoned piano and finds the letters still there.
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Michael and Joanna return late at night to figure out why this happens, Emily has a nightmare of them in danger, and concurrent with her hysterics, a statue falls, almost killing the couple. The rubble reveals a double-edged sword and a duplicate of Emily's medallion, previously hidden inside. Emily's behavior, in general, becomes more unpredictable, such as taking up smoking and playing piano when she previously had little skill, and unpleasant, particularly towards Joanna. The Countess warns of danger to everyone based on these discoveries and a tarot reading, but Michael dismisses her worry.
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governess, Jill, both of whom are still haunted by the death. Michael's obsession with a specific painting sends him to Italy, and his family doctor suggests
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