Wanda, Vol. 3 (of 3)

After a grand tour, Wanda and Sabran return to find she inherits an eighteenth-century art collection from a reclusive duke, prompting a Paris visit. The narrative follows their winter in the capital, exploring the couple's differing responses to celebrity—his enjoyment of attention, her aversion to publicity—and the strain fame brings on family life. Children react differently to city adulation, prompting Wanda to warn of envy’s dangers. Debates about preserving the legacy intact, balancing intimate domestic values against social display, and the fragile boundaries between private affection and public spectacle recur, as personal love, pride, and moral unease shape their choices.