 A gardener brings in flowers.Béatrice, 18 years old, claims for herself the charge of looking after the altar to the virgin; her excessive ardour earns her a rebuke.Alone with Odile and Blandine, the devout Béatrice offers food to a gypsy woman who passes by, and who tells Béatrice's fortune, predicting for her an existence of all the human passions; she is dismissed by Béatrice.