That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette.
That the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery.
But that he could not bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. That that was the first problem.
And then, that there was another: the empty coffin."
"What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean.
Fauchelevent replied:--
"The coffin of the administration."
"What coffin?
What administration?"
"A nun dies.
The municipal doctor comes and says, `A nun has died.' The government sends a coffin.
The next day it sends a hearse and undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in it."
"Put something in it."
"A corpse?
I have none."
"No."
"What then?"
"A living person."
"What person?"
"Me!" said Jean Valjean.