Chapter 36
"From the moment I saw Lucio Rimanez," went on Sibyl's 'dying speech,' "I abandoned myself to love and the desire of love. I had heard of him before from my father, who had (as I learned to my shame) been indebted to him for monetary assistance. On the very night we met, my father told me quite plainly that now was my chance to get 'settled' in life. 'Marry Rimanez or Tempest, whichever you can most easily catch,' he said. 'The prince is fabulously wealthy—but he keeps up a mystery about himself and no one knows where he actually comes from,—besides which, he dislikes women;— now Tempest has five millions and seems an easy-going fool, —I should say you had better go for Tempest.' I made no answer and gave no promise either way. I soon found out, however, that Lucio did not inte
