Beatrice’s story has strong parallels with Agnes’s, with both women forced into religious service at a young age, rebelling, and facing unjust consequences as a result. Beatrice follows her passion to ruin, ultimately paying with her life. Agnes’s fate remains unknown in the story’s present, leaving open the possibility that she may be spared Beatrice’s tragic fate. At least for now, Otto’s murder of Beatrice goes unpunished. This is yet another example of the novel subverting conventional understandings of right and wrong, showing how people sometimes get away with immoral acts.