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 to her. It was determined that he should apologize to her for his unkindness; and, as an atonement for it, insist upon her accompanying him to Bareges, in order to try and recover her health, which to herself alone he should acknowledge his fears of having injured. Their plans arranged, they immediately separated. Old D'Alembert was in haste to return to his house from whence he had privately departed for the purpose of consulting his son on the sudden change in their prospects; Claude alone knew of his departure, and was ordered to detain the Marquis's messenger, and invent a plausible excuse for the letter he brought not being answered directly.

The purport of the letter which D'Alembert wrote in reply to it has been already mentioned. After writing it, he had a private interview with Lafroy, to whom he imparted the new scene of cruelty and baseness he and his son were about acting; and gave such instructions as he deemed necessary.