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But no one exciting showed signs of entangling himself permanently , and so , when Major Vandyke wired that the situation in Mexico permitted him to ask for leave , Di 's engagement was announced in the _ Morning Post _ . Soon after this , Sidney arrived with cartloads of luggage , which seemed to detach him from America forever . He had got long leave and intended to resign from the army at the end of it . He took up his quarters at the Savoy Hotel , but he was at our house morning , noon , and night ; and though everybody who saw him for the first time said how handsome he was , it struck me from the minute we met that he had changed for the worse . He looked older and stouter , and black and white would no longer express him in a picture . A suffusion of red for the face , as well as for the lips under the black moustache , would have been needed . I wondered if he were drinking ; and though , when he lunched or dined with us he was always careful -LRB- except with champagne , which he loved as a child loves sweets -RRB- , he might be less cautious when out of Diana 's sight .