Finally! … Madame de Renal thought, she appeared stunned by this discovery and without having the courage to add a single word, sat off on the couch at the back of the room.

The battle was now won, she had to be done to prevent M. de Renal to talk to the supposed author of the anonymous letter.

-How do you not feel that making a scene, without sufficient evidence, Mr. Valenod, is the most egregious blunders? You are envied, sir, who is to blame? your talents, your wise administration, your buildings full of taste, dot that I have made, and especially the significant legacy that we can expect from my dear aunt, whose legacy is very much exaggerated importance, you have made the first character Verrieres.

You forget the birth, said M. de Renal, smiling a little.

-You are one of the most distinguished gentlemen of the province eagerly took Madame de Renal, if the king was free and could do justice to the birth, you are also likely in the House of Lords, etc.. And in this wonderful location you want to give one the urge to comment on that?

Talk to Mr. Valenod of his anonymous letter is to proclaim throughout Verrieres, nay, in Besançon, in the province, that this little bourgeois, perhaps unwisely admitted to the intimacy of a Renal found a way to offend. When these letters that you just surprised that I responded to prove the love of Valenod, you should kill me, I would have deserved a hundred times, but not show her anger. Remember that all your neighbors are waiting for an excuse to take revenge on your superiority you consider that in 1816 contributed to some arrests. This man refuge on the roof …