Part 2, Chapter 13 Summary

Claire visits Louise the next day and finds out that Louise is pregnant with Prince Charles's baby. She is mixing up a potion that will give her terrible cramps and abort the baby. Claire has seen such women at the hospital nearly dead from the same concoction. She tries to talk Louise into telling Jules, Prince de Rohan, that the child is his. She confesses that she's already told Prince Charles that the child is his. That is why they quarreled the other night. Claire persists further and Louise decides she will sleep with Jules and tell him the child is his.

Claire returns home to find that Fergus has done a great job at stealing letters. Jamie is reading one letter signed by James Stuart. They plan to return the letter after reading it and Claire making a quick copy...