An interval of three or four days will not alter my plan.

This is what I have resolved.
"'My two children will be entrusted to two nurses of Normandy, where my estates are nearly all situated.

One of these women, known to Germain, and to whom I am sending him, will be in our interests.

It is to this person, Valerie, that our son will be confided.

These two women will leave Paris the same day, Germain accompanying her who will have charge of the son of the countess.
"'An accident, devised beforehand, will compel these two women to pass one night on the road.