"Uncertain, monsieur, but hopeful."
"She will recover, then?"
"I think so, but it will be some time. She must be removed to a hospital."
"Yes, of course,—of course. But you will report to me where she is taken from here, Monsieur le Docteur?"
"Oh, yes,—certainly. Though perhaps the girl's friends——"
"She has no friends," said the inspector.
"What! You know her, then?"
"It is Mademoiselle Fouchette."
"A nobody's child, eh?" asked the doctor.
"Mademoiselle Fouchette is the child of the police," said Inspector Loup.