Summary

In the journal entry dated September 1834, Aurore contemplated drowning herself. She stepped closer to the river that ran across Nohant. Suddenly, she heard the sound of a hundred birds in the tree that she had been lying under while thinking about suicide. Instead of going through with it, she found new resolve and went back into the house. She planned to take Maurice back to military school in October and to enroll Solange in school then, too. She received a letter from Alfred asking for another chance. She wrote that they must never meet again. Shortly after, she sent another letter asking him to meet her.

The journal entry dated October 1834 discusses the rekindling of Aurore's and Alfred's relationship. When he heard that she had sex with his doctor in Venice, he was mad. She reminded him that he had told her he...