"And who'll pay for it? Will you?"
"But surely the father will take care of it," she said, after another long silence. "And if he marries Rosalie, everything will be all right."
"The father!" answered Julien, roughly; "the father! Do you know who is the father? Of course you don't. Very well, then!"
Jeanne began to get troubled: "But he certainly will not forsake the girl; it would be such a cowardly thing to do. We will ask her his name, and go and see him and force him to give some account of himself."
Julien had become calmer, and was again walking about the room.
"My dear girl," he replied, "I don't believe she will tell you the man's name, or me either. Besides, suppose he wouldn't marry her? You must see that we can't keep a girl and her illegitimate child in our house."
But Jeanne would only repeat, doggedly:
"Then the man must be a villain; but we will find out who he is, and then he will have us to deal with instead of that poor girl."
Julien got very red.
"But until we know who he is?" he asked.