Flore Brazier had had a room of her own in Rouget's house; but Madame Rouget belonged to her husband, and was now deprived of the free-will of a servant-mistress.

In the horrible situation in which she now found herself, the hope of having a child came into her mind; but she soon recognized its impossibility.

The marriage was to Jean-Jacques what the second marriage of Louis XII.

was to that king.

The incessant watchfulness of a man like Philippe, who had nothing to do and never quitted his post of observation, made any form of vengeance impossible.