She reminded him of a portrait of a young raven-haired countess he had seen hanging on the wall of the Louvre.

She lived as a "the young countess" in the Schloss and died 10 years later in Beiersdorf.

"You are playing with very sticky fire, Oh Absalom," the young countess said.

"Why, of course," the young countess said.

Yet she could not have done so without the help of a young French countess, Sybille de la Borde.

She looked critically at the young countess.

I shivered as I read how the young countess had left the castle and sheltered in a nearby house.

Soon the young countess and her husband returned to Russia and settled in Moscow.

Dr. John meets little Polly again, now a young and beautiful countess, and they quickly become friends again - and something more.

While her husband was sleeping, the young countess had the knights displaced and the Great Church taken.