1) What’s the effect of condensing so much history (the Hundred Days, Waterloo, the Second Bourbon Restoration) into a few pages while mentioning—in a mere two sentences—that Dantès is unaware of everything happening?

2) Do you think this is really the last we’ll hear of Danglars??

3) Every interaction Villefort has with others (his father, Renée, Dantès, the king, the king’s courtiers…) feels like it’s part of a ceaseless chess match; do you think he’ll ever be able to relent from his calculated maneuvering?

Final sentence of chapter:

”The South was ablaze, and to assist the father of a Bonapartist as dangerous as Dantès, even on his deathbed, was a crime.”

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