Compared with the Tuileries Palace and the military camp in Lyon, the place where they had truly first met should have been Luxembourg Gardens. Pomona, still dressed in red at the time, had been sleeping on a park bench when Bonaparte passed by and took her back to Saint-Cloud.
What if she had not been saved by him then, but by someone else?
After being away for so long, Georgiana returned to find that the women's and children's shelter she had established had changed again. The women felt they could not simply eat and live there for free, even though they did some work such as twisting hemp rope.
They started a daycare class. Parents with jobs could send their children there and pick them up after work in the evening. Business was not desolate, but neither was it bustling. After all, in families nowadays, women would stay home as full-time housewives.
Still, there were exceptions. After it had been operating for a while, fewer and fewer parents came to pick up their children on time, while more and more arrived late.
At first, the women at the shelter did not mind. After all, their workplace and living quarters were the same place. That was until one of the shelter women had an argument with a parent who was late to pick up a child.
The shelter woman casually complained a little, but the late parent said, "It's not as if you have anything else to do." The two grew louder and louder until they finally drew over the doctor stationed at the shelter.
When Georgiana was absent, the doctor was the shelter's "officer." He mediated and calmed both sides down. That parent never sent their child to the daycare class again.
Later, the women discussed it privately and decided