Georgiana had things she wanted to do as well. However, she could not act however she pleased.
Many women in a family were like this. They had to divide their time among many people—their husbands, children, sometimes even their parents. Their time and energy alone did not belong to themselves, though she did not belong to Bonaparte's family.
While he was bathing, she had not immediately begun packing because she had to consider his feelings.
It might have had nothing to do with how crude the facilities were. She should not have brought up the wretched feeling from when he had still been a nobody. Xiao Guanyin was written about in Nick Polo's Travels. She often offered Emperor Daozong of Liao advice, but he could not take any of that "loyal counsel" to heart and instead grew distant from her.
She needed to be more tactful, or rather, she should not have been so blunt.
At that moment, the bathroom door opened, and he emerged in a bathrobe. This time, he had not called for a valet or Georgiana to scrub his back.
Seeing his wet hair, she naturally stood up to dry it with a towel, but he subtly avoided her. She stood there helplessly.
"Do you know what you did wrong?" he asked after a moment.
She did not answer.
"Do you not know, or do you not dare say?" he asked sternly.
"I shouldn't have brought up the past," she said in a trembling voice.
He stared at her without speaking.
"You're not the same as before," she sobbed.
"It's irritating when you talk like that."
Of course it was. How could a successful man want to hear about the days when he had been a failure?
She thought it with some sarcasm but did not say