Lawrence, is harrowing to contemplate.

The death of the infant is described without specifics across the accounts — whether the child was stillborn, or survived briefly before dying, or died in infancy, is not precisely recorded.

What is recorded is that it died.

At some point, Marguerite was alone.

The exact sequence of these deaths — whether her companion died before or after the birth, whether Damienne died before or after the infant — is not established with certainty.

The accounts vary in their specific chronology while agreeing on the essential fact: that by some point in Marguerite’s time on the island, she was the only one left.