About this story
His wife, Madame de la Motte, takes you in without demanding to know why, and the family flees toward the Forest of Fontanville through fever and a lost road, arriving at nightfall at a ruined abbey - where a barred door, and a sound behind it, suggest someone reached the shelter first.
How it opens
The locked room on the heath had held you long enough to make rescue another form of uncertainty.
Adeline's KeeperThis traveller will take you where I never see you again, or neither of you leaves.
He pushed you toward a stranger while men guarded the passage beyond the door.
Pierre de la MotteI cannot promise safety, child, but remaining here plainly offers none.
Adeline's KeeperHis carriage waits nearby; bind their eyes and put them on the horses.
Choose
Do not return for anything after they release us.
Make certain the woman in the carriage is unharmed.