Malena has always been sweet, obedient and innocent. This is all that the Blessed Republic required of a woman. The rest is the problems of the father, then the husband. By the way, finding a husband is also a father’s business. But what if the father breaks off one engagement after another? No recipes have been invented for such a case. For young ladies, instructions were written for all occasions - from the length of a skirt to the preferred topics of table conversation, but not a single one was suitable for a kidnapping victim.