 When she was told that he had been killed in battle, her grief was such that she renounced her noble life, and made the irreversible decision to enter a monastery.However, against all expectations, Raymond Jourdain recovered from his battle wounds and returned to Penne, where he found that Adalaïs was effectively lost to him.After an extended period of mourning he found a replacement for Adalaïs, in the person of Elise (or Alice) de Montfort, as the fable tells it.