Chapter 14
"Bernard?!"
"André?!" He was surprised to see him. And with his master. "Oscar François de Jarjayes…"
"Actually it´s Grandier…"
"What?!" Bernard was surprised.
"We are now husband and wife"
These two were married?! "Really?!" That was surprising. He had never thought this day would happen. These two? A commoner and a noble? And all this time he thought that Oscar was just like those toy soldiers; doing exactly what she was told to. "Well, I have to change my opinion about you. I thought you were a puppet at the Versailles Palace, obeying the king …But now…Marrying a commoner?!"
"Hmm" Oscar admitted. Looking back few months she could have never guessed this.
"What about your parents? Your father? General de Jarjayes? I´m sure he´s not happy about this…"
"No, he´s not…"
"…In fact, he kicked us out." André continued "We have been living with my friends for a while now…"
Meanwhile everyone was talking; Loulou just kept staring at Bernard."You know, mister…" she said to him "you look a lot like André…" Only then Oscar looked at Bernard straight into his eyes, she really looked at him…"When I think about it, André reminds me of…the Black Knight?" she thought to herself. She had met him before; she had been so close to him at one point. At the ball that night, when this all had started. At one point she had really wanted to catch the Black Knight, but things just had gotten in the way.
When she measured Bernard with her eyes, she could imagine him being the Black Knight; the same body built and the same high. She didn´t even pay attention of what they were talking about, until Bernard mentioned Rosalie´s name…
"…yeah, that´s right. We´re married now."
"You and Rosalie?" he shouted happily "Married?! Congratulations!"
"Congratulations" Oscar said "you take good care of Rosalie. She´s like a sister to me."
"Thank you, I will. Why don´t you come to our house to greet her…"
"We´d love to, but we have to take my niece back home before she gets into trouble…" Oscar said. She didn´t say anything about her suspicions. Was Bernard the Black Knight? Even if he was, this was no time to think about it. They had to get Loulou home, because everyone was missing her.
"…again" André continued, looking at Loulou.
After saying goodbyes, Oscar and André took Loulou to their former home, to Oscar´s mother. She was so happy to have her granddaughter back, unharmed…
"Why don´t you two come home." Madame de Jarjayes asked them. They had been away for a long time, now. She missed them, everybody missed them.
"But what about father?" Oscar asked.
"He´ll come around, when he hears that you saved Loulou. I´m sure he wouldn´t mind taking you back…"
"Thank you, mother. But André s grandmother is still..."
"We ll bring her back, I promise" her mother answered.
And so they returned to their home to their family.
The End.