Husband and wife thus tacitly sanctioned what was done at Issoudun.

Nevertheless, Roguin had forced Bridau to reflect upon the future interests of his wife which were thus compromised.

He saw that if he died before her, Agathe would be left without property, and this led him to look into his own affairs.

He found that between 1793 and 1805 his wife and he had been obliged to use nearly thirty thousand of the fifty thousand francs in cash which old Rouget had given to his daughter at the time of her marriage.

He at once invested the remaining twenty thousand in the public funds, then quoted at forty, and from this source Agathe received about two thousand francs a year.