The two children were asleep.
March 14.--I have read again what I wrote on the morning of the 13th
about the knocking I heard during the night.
Charles has been laid out in the salon on the ground floor of the house
in the Rue Saint Maur. He lies on a bed covered with a sheet which the
women of the house have strewn with flowers. Two neighbours, workingmen
who love me, asked permission to watch by the body all night. The
coroner’s physician, on uncovering the dear dead, wept.