 This takes places during the first days of June 1832.It is only there that he learns of Cosette's love for Marius when a young boy (Gavroche) delivers a letter from Marius to Cosette, which mentions that Marius is at the barricade and will die as he promised her, since she left without a forwarding address.Valjean has another long inward struggle, at first feeling relief about Marius' certain death, then guilt about his former feeling.