Despite his wife, Jamette, being heavily pregnant, Edmond had decided now was the time to leave Limoges, although he had no idea where. His luck as a poacher had run out since Dumas’s men had caught him hunting wild boar and he had been incarcerated in the dark cold cell at the chateau. He was a marked man and could not expect to escape with his life if similar events occurred in the future. No, after years of treating Jamette without consideration or respect, spending whole days drinking to excess with like-minded reprobates in the town’s inns, he had to change. With a baby expected, they must come first.
His initial experiences of the confessional had been forced upon him: he agreed to participate so that Father Caron would not reveal his illegal hunting to Dumas and the authorities. Bu
