countess

The countess helped plan the village and designed its pavilion.

Moore’s strategic countess can only elevate her position and that of her family by using George, which she does without guilt.

It tells the story of a count and countess whiling away their days in a secluded villa surrounded by a garden as a horde of rabble rousers approaches.

“A countess is, of course, a useful thing to be,” I observed.

"She was this countess who had all of these connections to varying people in the know," Mulley explains.