Even women could have times when they simply could not "communicate." Take mothers and daughters, for instance. Even if the daughter was a masterpiece designed by the mother herself, she would still feel that her daughter was not perfect enough.
When Georgiana returned to Murat's house, Polina was indeed gone, though she had said at breakfast that she was going out.
Yesterday, she had lost 300,000 lira at the Visconti residence.
Although it was no small sum, it was still within what Georgiana could accept.
The key was that Polina had met a spendthrift Bolognese nobleman at the ball, and he was twenty years older than her.
He was also somewhat related to the papal envoy Caprara, since his second surname was Caprara, inherited from the last heir of the Caprara family.
After the Treaty of Tolentino was signed, places like Bologna, Ferrara, and Modena were ceded from the Papal States to France. Napoleon established military governments in those places, and this Bolognese representative was one of their members, responsible for training auxiliaries and police.
After the two republics merged, he began living in Milan. In doing so, he was also acting for Bologna's sake, because Bologna lay on the "frontier" of the new republic.
What could she do? Georgiana could only wait at Murat's house for Polina to return. She could hardly send the honor guard to "invite" her back again.
Oh, right—the honor guard now had a commander. He had been appointed by Murat, the "commander-in-chief," and was also a nobleman from Bologna. His father was even a prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
Though he was only twenty-four, he had once served as commander of the National Guard. He recognized warrants, not people, and Magenta was currently under his guard.
Last time, Murat had said that Ancona