Summary

As Odette gives birth, Pierre wonders how to get rid of the baby. He believed she was suffering God’s punishment for having sex out of wedlock through a painful birth. He waits downstairs as the midwife is with Odette. Usually, he leaves for the Guise family palace right after breakfast to meet one of the Dukes. In the afternoon, he often met with his growing network of spies who continue to add names to his Protestant notebook. However, now he is waiting for the baby after five months of being married. Within the first two weeks, Odette had been unsuccessful in convincing or taunting him into having normal sexual relations with her. Both resent each other and rarely speak outside of talks about the home. Pierre is furious that the has to live with her and a child, hoping that...