Arrival on the Island of OuessantThe traveler arrives at the port of Stiff on the island of Ouessant, where a group of local women warmly greets Marie Ange. After disembarking, Marie Ange guides the traveler up a steep path to the island's plateau. During their walk, she explains that island women stop singing after marriage except in church, attributing this practice to ancestral tradition. The traveler reflects on the cultural gap between them as they walk across the vast, treeless landscape. Marie Ange invites him to visit her home at Cadoran, the ancient dwelling of the Morvarc h clan, before they part ways at a crossroads.As Marie Ange walks away, an elderly island courier named Nola Glaquin approaches the traveler in a small pony cart and offers him a ride into town alongside his luggage. Accepting the offer, the traveler boards the cart and asks Nola about Marie Ange. Nola describes Marie Ange as a modest, hardworking, and universally beloved woman who is happily married to a lobster fisherman named Jean Morvarc h, with whom she has a young child. Nola notes that Marie Ange lives a truly happy life, which she considers the only kind of story worth telling.As they travel, the landscape shifts from dry steppe to green pastures with small sheep, wooden windmills, and houses lined with drying cow dung. They arrive at the village of Porz Paul, where church bells chime for noon. The traveler buys Nola a drink at a local inn to thank her for the ride. Before departing, Nola cryptically mentions that if the traveler wants to learn more about Marie Ange, he should find someone to tell him the story of the Siren, though she declines to share it herself to maintain good relations with everyone on the island.