“This is made to her Majesty’s own recipe,” she said proudly. “It will keep her young and lovely until she dies.”
*
In the evening Gisela received instruction first from the Countess Festetics and then from the Empress herself.
She was taught how to bow and how to extend her hand for it to be kissed. She found it difficult at first to manipulate the trains of her dresses, to sit straight-backed but graceful, to walk first through a doorway when even the Empress herself stood back to watch her go.
“Splendid! Splendid!” she said more than once, clasping her hands together.
When finally Gisela came down to dinner that night dressed in one of the Empress’s gowns and having had her hair dressed by Fanny Angerer, the Prince and all the other gentlemen gave a shout of approval as she entered
