But as soon as the prince had gone her face resumed its former cold, artificial expression.
She returned to the group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave.
Her task was accomplished.
"And what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at Milan?" asked Anna Pavlovna, "and of the comedy of the people of Genoa and Lucca laying their petitions before Monsieur Buonaparte, and Monsieur Buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of the nations? Adorable! It is enough to make one's head whirl! It is as if the whole world had gone crazy.