The Dobronowskas were let alone in the imperial city on the Seine; but, unfortunately, the important state functionaries soon became as tired of the countess's plaints as their brothers on the Neva.

Reduced to the shifts of the penniless aristocrats, the two lived like the shabby genteel.

They made a desperate attempt to entrap their Grand-duke again.
But the victim had warning and the pair were stopped at Warsaw.

Here a beam of the sun, long withheld, glanced through the clouds and transiently warmed "the marrying mamma." A distant relative of hers, one Lergins, was an attache of the embassy and he fell in love with his "cousin" Iza, as the mother allowed the youth to call her.

As he had splendid prospects and seemed to be quite another man as regarded maternal control of Wanda's husband, mamma dismissed her brilliant _ignis fatuus_ and tried to have a clandestine marriage come off.