But is it really safe in a remote village? At the well, Klavdiya meets Zoya, a gossip who talks incessantly about Fyodor and his partisan detachment and openly hints that if the Germans find out about this, the village will be burned down. Klavdiya understands that it is better not to quarrel with Zoya, and tells her about her mad niece who has escaped from the city, and she herself hurries to Fyodor's wife, Maria, and begs her to flee the village. Klavdiya takes their little daughter with her...