It comes out that she has been living with a Russian prince , leaving her infant son in the care of an aunt near Paris .
When a smallpox epidemic breaks out she returns to nurse him ; he dies , and she catches the disease .
It comes out that she has been living with a Russian prince , leaving her infant son in the care of an aunt near Paris , but when a smallpox epidemic breaks out she returns to nurse him ; he dies , and she catches the disease .