Beth's seen the countess around, she realizes, and nods in recognition. When it comes to the General Count, she laughs a little. The face Sonia makes gives her a younger look; as weary as the war must have made her, it hasn't broken her.

"Some people are too busy to be interesting." She doesn't know a lot of them, these days, but the kind of war they fought at home was a very different one. "Guess he's one."