The worse for your absence.

[ The Count is a vile man, a foul creature, a monster. Hateful and cruel. The Countess is his creature. And I am theirs, body and soul, and so I must bow to their desires. ]

But only spiritually, I suspect. Physically they are whole and healthy - if a little thinner, admittedly. They have taken rations scarcely better than what the rest of us exist on.