Chapter 6, Part 1 Summary

After making love for the first time, Christine insists on returning to Madame Vanzade but returns the next morning after lying to the old woman that she needed to be in Paris to meet another friend coming to the city for the day. Christine is not comfortable with telling lies but she wants nothing more than to be with Claude. They leave Paris to go to the countryside and visit an inn called Bennecourt. Claude tells the proprietors that he and Christine are married. After a breakfast of omelets and sausage, they have until four o'clock in the afternoon to catch the train back to Paris. Now deeply in love with each other, they find a secluded spot and make love again. Exiting the wood, they come upon a house with an old man standing at the door. He asks Claude...