Vautrin (handing some documents to the duke)
These are what I took from your study.
The Duke These comprise my correspondence, and the letters of the duchess to the Viscount de Langeac.
Vautrin
Who was shot at Mortagne, October, 1792, through the kind efforts of
Charles Blondet, otherwise known as the Chevalier de Saint-Charles.
Saint-Charles
But your grace very well knows—
Vautrin It was he himself who gave me these papers, among which you will notice the death certificate of the viscount, which proves that he and her grace the duchess never met after the Tenth of August, for he had then left the Abbaye for the Vendee, accompanied by Boulard, who seized the moment to betray and murder him.
The Duke
And so Fernand—
Vautrin
The child sent to Sardinia is undoubtedly your son.
The Duke
And her grace the duchess—
Vautrin
Is innocent.
The Duke
My God! (He sinks back into an armchair.) What have I done?