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All that , however , was now past remedy , and she must simply endure the mode of life which she had prepared for herself . There were other men and women in London tied together for better and worse , in reference to whose union their friends knew that there would be no better ; -- that it must be all worse . Lady Laura must bear it , as it was borne by many another married woman . On the Monday morning Phineas called at Moroni 's Hotel at ten o'clock , but in spite of Lady Laura 's assurance to the contrary , he found that Lord Chiltern was out . He had felt some palpitation at the heart as he made his inquiry , knowing well the fiery nature of the man he expected to see . It might be that there would be some actual personal conflict between him and this half-mad lord before he got back again into the street . What Lady Laura had said about her brother did not in the estimation of Phineas make this at all the less probable .