A smiling woman in a long brown robe stands in a rustic barn next to a cow. Through a doorway, two other people are visible at a table. Illustrated style.

Blanche! Blanche! Where are you?? asked the locksmith, running like mad toward the stables. His wife poked her head from behind a cow. Smiling as always, she was stilll milking the heavy udder. ?What?s the big hurry, Jacques?? she blinked. ?Come, Blanche, come! Monsieur le marquis de Pierrefonds is here and he wants to see you. Now!? ?What?!? asked the woman and rushed out of the stables, wiping the back of her hands against her heavy robe. She was a tall brunette. A big, tall brunette, as the priest of Audun described her to monsieur le marquis. She was a nice looking woman, 31 years old, and her face was always smiling. She had deep, brown eyes, a slightly crooked nose that borrowed her an air of nobility and straight lips. She had two boys ? one was 17, the other was 15. She was breathing heavily when she got in the house and she let an ?ooh? of astonishment when she saw monsieur le marquis de Pierrefonds. He was sitting on her husband?s chair, in the small kitchen. The priest of Audun, a tall, white haired man, stood beside the marquis, eyeing her from head to toe. ?Mon Dieu!? she covered her mouth and readily executed a clumsy reverence... However, she was still smiling. It?s only then that she saw a woman, a stout redhead, hidden behind the door. She wore a red, dirty robe. She was tall and skinny. ?Oh, my God! What happened?? asked Blanche, looking in her husband?s eyes. However, it?s the priest who answered: ?You don?t need to get scared, Blanche! Monsieur le marquis See more