Miles collapsed and later expressed his amazement o the doctors: "I can""t believe this! My doctor said I""d be up and on my feet in five days.She was seduced by the aristocratic, charming and glamorous lifestyle she found on he Continent.She flirted with and entered into various sexual affairs, causing her marriage to ultimately fail.With a realistic and complex depiction of the crumbling relationship, the drama pushed the limits of the restrictive Production Code at the time with a frank depiction of marital infidelities (off-screen mostly), the couple""s inevitable breakup, and his association with another woman named Edith.In Linz, a small Austrian provincial town, her hopeful, watchful parents formally present Lisa (in a beautiful white dress and a matching white parasol) to a handsome young officer, Lieutenant Leopold von Kaltnegger (John Good), the nephew of a general.Prince Christian August (C.Aubrey Smith), her father, read from a letter sent by he Prussian King Frederick - Sophia had been selected and then commanded o become a Russian bride:We, by Divine Grace Frederick, king of Prussia, have, after a series of negotiations, decided to honor your family by selecting your daughter, Sophia Frederica to forthwith set out for Russia and there to become the bride of His Serene Highness, Peter Feodorovich, grandson of Peter the Great, nephew of Her Imperial Majesty, and heir presumptive to the throne.