When she joined her companions at breakfast, they were all struck with her extreme pallor, and the distressed expression of her countenance.

To their anxious questions she replied by giving an account of her nocturnal adventure, and de Sigognac, furious at this fresh outrage, could scarcely be restrained from going at once to demand, satisfaction for it from the Duke of Vallombreuse, to whom he did not hesitate to attribute this villainous scheme.
"I think," said Blazius, when he could make himself heard, "that we had better pack up, and be off as soon as we can for Paris; the air is becoming decidedly unwholesome for us in this place." After a short discussion all the others agreed with him, and it was decided that they should take their departure from Poitiers the very next day..