Every year, many people died in shipwrecks. Only a lucky few were washed ashore by The Waves.
But that did not mean the story ended there. Alexandre Dumas's father was captured by enemy troops and imprisoned, while William Petty arrived at a monastery, received an education there, and later became Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Others returned to their former lives. Odysseus narrowly escaped death amid raging waves and returned to his homeland, but he still had matters to attend to before reuniting with his family. Odysseus had only one son. If he returned any later, those suitors were preparing to kill him.
In this era, a household losing its man could not be described merely as "a sad thing." Though people at the banquet whispered among themselves, Georgiana still chose to believe him, because he himself had said he would mourn Leclerc.
As for the other protagonist of this "scandal," Georgiana had no intention of making things difficult for her either. Scylla herself had done nothing wrong. She had merely rejected a fisherman's love; it was only because a witch poisoned her bathwater that she became a monster.
Disfiguring a "rival in love" and thinking that would make one's beloved change his mind was the sort of thing women often did when they were being irrational. Besides, Chiara herself was under immense pressure. Male painters liked female models, yet were far less friendly toward fellow female painters, especially since Chiara had used cheating to secure her own "appointment." They also openly appraised this beauty.
Georgiana now began to understand why Josephine had formed a "human wall" to keep Bonaparte apart from other women. Like Odysseus, she had plugged her ears with wax. Then she had the orchestra change the music to something cheerful and suitable for dancing. Once the