Enemy Country

Diana (Sackville), Viscountess Crosbie
I imagine this is very similar to what Stephen was having to deal with.

I'm reading The Surgeon's Mate, volume 7 in Patrick O'Brian's epic saga of the British Royal Navy in the time of Napoleon.

Stephen Maturin is in London with the holy grail of his heart's desire: Diana Villiers. He has offered to marry her but she will not as she is pregnant with another man's child. Stephen is going to a scientific conference in Paris, never mind that a war is going on. Diana want's to go with him. Her staying in England means either hiding out or facing down all the gossip she would engender. Anyway, we have a couple of lines on page 136 that I thought worth sharing.

Stephen: 'Would not the same objections apply in France? And could you live easy in an enemy country?'
Diana: 'Oh, nobody has ever thought of Paris as enemy country. We are at war with Napoleon, not with Paris.'