This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by the famous poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow's poem, "Invisible Man," is a poem about a man who is invisible to the naked eye. He is invisible because he is blind, but he is also invisible because his eyes are so sensitive. In this poem, the blind man is a bastard emperor who is cruel to the people, and the empress is a good person who had to marry him. The empress sends a servant to fetch the servant, but the servant is not allowed to leave the palace. The servant tells the servant that the Empress is very kind to the nobles, and that she even sent some maids to accompany her, as a sign of her filial piety