Prince Cagliari was required to pay to Princess Zboroy--for Blanka retained her rank and title--an annuity of twelve thousand ducats, to give over for her use as a dwelling one wing of the Cagliari palace, and to restore her dowry and jewels.

These latter terms were evidently to be credited to Gabriel Zimandy's generalship; for his client might have found herself left with neither home nor annuity.

So the lawyer's conversion had met with its reward even in this world.
But Blanka's enjoyment of house and home and yearly income was made dependent on a certain condition: she was never to leave Rome.

The nature of the decree rendered this provision necessary.

As she was forbidden to contract a second marriage, her judge found himself obliged to keep her under his eye, to make sure that his mandate was obeyed; and no more delicate and at the same time effective way to do this could have been devised than to offer her a palace in Rome and bid her enjoy its possession for the rest of her life.