Clio repairs the house and goes out to all the best places, claiming to be a Countess and deliberately drawing attention to herself. On Sunday morning, she stops for a bowl of jambalaya at the market and is immediately attracted to Clint Maroon, a tall Texan in a white stetson, lounging nearby—and staring at her. Clint offers to drive Clio to the cathedral, but Angelique interferes. After Mass, they go to Begue's, the restaurant where the Dulaines breakfast every Sunday. When the family—her father's mother, his widow and her daughter, Clio's half-sister—arrives, they recognize her by her resemblance to her mother and leave. Clint and Clio meet again at the restaurant, and he drives her home. He jumps to the wrong conclusion about her intentions; she slams the gate in his face. He writes a letter of apology.