Part 5, Chapter 31 Summary

Claire receives word from Louise about the birth of her son, Henri. She also receives letters from Hildegarde, and Charles writes to Jamie. Although Claire does not hear from Raymond, she gets unmarked packages in the mail from time to time with herbs and stones in them. She knows Raymond is responsible.

Claire visits the Rabbie and tries to comfort her, as her son has epileptic seizures. Mary Rabbie tries to feed him food with cock's blood in it and Claire succeeds in persuading her not to. Claire tells her the boy will be alright, but the Rabbie does not believe her. Claire uses one of the stones given to her by Raymond and tells the Rabbie to sew it into the boy's pocket. It's foolish, but it's the only thing that will calm the Rabbie.

Claire returns home to find...