Paul and Captain de Rosbourg may be alive! Marguerite and Sophie never stop talking about the wreck, he survivors, America and the Caribbean Islands. Mrs de Rosbourg cannot sleep any more because she cannot stop thinking about finding the husband she thought dead. Mrs de Fleurville asks her brother, Mr de Ruges, to see with the Navy Ministry to see if there may have been any other survivors of the shipwreck. Meanwhile at the castle, the children continue to build huts and Blaise talks about his life on the islands. Contradictory news come from Paris: firstly, it is believed that Mr de Rosbourg could be alive. However, nobody has seen him since the wreck. As for Paul, Sophie wonders if he might one day return.
