and change change change is gonna come but

Legally speaking, I was the property of my father until such time as I became the property of my husband. Veda ordinarily therefore would be my father's to dispose of as he saw fit, but as her paternal family outranked ours, he would cede the Archiduc's will. I would have inherited my father's title, and it would have been my dowry, and become my husband's along with the estate and all of my inheritance.