Conditions were sealed and signed.

One condition was that both Lady Glencora and I should be there.

We put our heads together to try to avoid this; as, of course, the Prince would not want to see me particularly,--and it was altogether so grand an affair that things had to be weighed.

But the Duke was inexorable.

Lady Glencora at such a time would have other things to do, and I must be there, or Gatherum Castle should not be opened.