"They say your husband bested Karl Dressel in that duel?"
The Emperor was the one to raise it at the next family dinner, not long after.
It had been the only thing anyone wanted to talk about for days.
Joachim chose that witness brilliantly. There probably isn't a soul in the capital who hasn't heard by now.
"So it's reached Your Majesty's ears as well. How embarrassing."
"The embarrassed party should be Sir Dressel, not you."
Marcella, who had been silent the entire time, spoke up first. Anton looked at her with mild surprise.
"I hear he's withdrawn from all social engagements and is in seclusion. The shame was too much to bear. To challenge someone and lose in under five minutes—"
Five minutes? Why does the time keep shrinking? Friedrich had told me it was approximately eight minutes. But it had been circulating as five — and at some…
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