The next day, the feast is over, and Aetius and his brother, "Florieux," are enjoying themselves. They want to know why the abbott has come to see them. The abbott tells them that he has sheltered them in his house for the past few days, and that they have two enemies: "two hounds of god" who are named "aetius" and "florieux" . The two of them have been asking questions about the monk, and now they are following him. The monk tells them to get their weapons back first, and then they can look at the bridge. He asks the miller about his daughter, who was found three years ago after her mother's death. He wants to know what happened to her, and the monk tells him to speak to the father of the girl. He tells the miller that he had to tell highway robbers that "robbery was a sin" , but that he could not have killed his daughter because she was a member of the order. The miller tells the monk that they had to explain this to highway robbers, and he asks the monk why he had been reproaching him for killing his daughter. He says that the monk's behavior is the same as that which has plagued Cluny since the arrival of "lothario" half a century before.