She bowed her head and continued softly, as if fearing to awaken the baby asleep on the bed: "No one knows--but Jean.

My mother came first, and then my father.

I lied to them.

I told them that I was married, and that my husband had gone into the North.

I came home with the baby--to meet this man I called Paul Darcambal, and whom they thought was my husband.