 Jeanne unconditionally believes Mimi who passes on for truth the rumor that a butcher s daughter, Tamara, is 4 months pregnant, and the father is  a boy in Jeanne s shop ; her hasty conclusion it must be Hugo -as Dieter was in Italy, Gentil is too respectable- who therefore should marry the future mother. The girl students believe his protestations of innocence, while Gentil is eager to fabricate a letter as  proof , but when he slips knowing about it he becomes the prime suspect and forfeits Jeanne s trust.