The convalescent was allowed to spend her days on Monte Mario, but required to return to Rome at nightfall.

Good morals and good laws demanded this.
Nevertheless, even this slight change--the drives to and from Monte Mario, and the mountain air during the fine autumn days--did the princess good, and eventually restored her health.
Meanwhile there was more than one momentous change in the political world, but Blanka heeded them not.

What signified to her the watchword of the period,--"Liberty ?" What liberty had she?
Even were all the world beside free, she was not free to love..