The latter's first question, when Leigh returned, had been regarding the child.
It was now nearly fifteen months old but, in the terrible shock caused by the news of his wife having been carried off, Jean had not thought of it till Leigh had left the room.
"The child is as nothing to me," he said, when Leigh had told him that the messenger had heard nothing of it.

"It would have been, some day; but so far 'tis as nothing compared to Patsey.

It slept with the nurse, and may possibly have escaped; unless, indeed, Patsey wished to take it with her." "I do not think that she would do that," Leigh said.

"No doubt it would have been a comfort, to have it with her; but she would have known that its chances of life would be slight, indeed, and for your sake she would have concealed it, if possible, before she was seized." They reached the ruins of the chateau at noon next day, having stopped for the night at Chemille, in order to rest their horses and keep them in condition for another long ride, if necessary.

The outhouse had been left standing.