I'm afraid so' said Lady Clementina. She smiled at him. You're very kind to y about me, Arthur, dear. But now you'll have to leave me. I have to go out to dinner with some very boring people. Goodbye. Give my love to Sybil. And thank you very much for the American medicine: "You won't forget to take it, Lady Clem. wi you?" said Lord Arthur of course I won't, you sily boy: she replied. "You're really very kind. I'll write and tell you if I want any more? Lord Arthur left the house feeling very happy That night, he went to see Sybil Merton. Sybil: he said. Because of a friend, I've been put in a very difficult position. I have a duty to put this matter right, and until I do I'm not a free man. I'm afraid our marriage will have to war syki threw herself into his arms and began to cry. Please be patient, dear' he said. He stayed with her until nearly midnight. He told her that he loved her, and promised that everything would be all nght in the end. When he got home, he wrote a letter (full of words. but explaining little) to Sybil's father. And early the next day, he left for Venice. In Venice Lord Arthur met his brother Lord Surbiton. who had come from Corfu in his sailing boat. The two young men spent two very pleasant weeks together, but Lord Arthur was not completely happy: Every day he looked at the lix of Deaths in The Times newspaper, expecting to see a notice of Lady Cementinas