Mathilde goes to Paris to meet Elodie Gordes, the wife of Benjamin Gordes. However, Mathilde does not get much information from Elodie concerning Benjamin and Eskimo as Elodie is too embarrassed, but she promises to write Mathilde a letter. Elodie's letter arrives and Elodie begins by explaining that she has five children, four of whom are from Benjamin's first marriage, although they are not his biological children; he adopted them. The other child, whom he also adopted, is the product of an affair Elodie had when she was younger. Benjamin's first wife died a short time after he married her and adopted her children, and so he hired Elodie, who had a young child herself, to take care of Benjamin and the children. It was a perfect arrangement for the two.....
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