She had promised to visit her
parents at some future time. When Captain Fairfield enquired about
the lady she had come out with three years previous, the old lady
broke out into sobs, and told him that the lady had died during her
confinement in St. Pelagie, but that the nuns would give him more
information about it if he would go there. If the babe had lived she
did not know, but the sisters had offered to give to her daughter
the lady's clothes and trunk if she came herself to demand it. This
last blow seemed to be the hardest in all his sorrow. Thinking
himself so near to find his beloved wife, and now all gone and
forever, it seemed to hard. But he would go and see the nuns and
hear how she had died, and if his child had lived or was alive now.
This thought gave him new hopes, and, Madame Bertrand offering to
accompany him, they proceeded to St. Pelagie to obtain an interview
with the Lady Superioress. He had never thought of the child before,
but now it was his whole thought and hope to find it alive.
Arriving at the convent he had not to wait very long to see the
desired lady, and on informing her of his wishes she most kindly
consented to search all records, but, as the number of patients
received every year is very large he had to content himself till the
following day when she would give him all the information he desired.
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