She accompanied him, disguised as his servant, for the permission to attend the prisoner to Leopoldstadt was given in that name.

But the priest promised to go to the emperor himself and obtain for the wife the favor which had been granted to the servant.
He kept his word, and, a few weeks later, the governor of Leopoldstadt received the imperial command to allow the wife of the imprisoned Baron von Kolbielsky to share his captivity.
But Kolbielsky's hope of a speedy release was not to be fulfilled.

Napoleon had become the emperor of Austria's son-in-law, and thereby Kolbielsky's position was aggravated.

He knew too many of the Emperor Francis' secrets, could betray too much concerning the emperor's hate, and secret intrigues of which Francis himself had been aware.

He was dangerous and therefore must be kept in captivity.
In his wrath he wrote vehement, insulting letters to the Emperor Francis, made himself guilty of high-treason.