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On the evening that they were to sail, Lewis himself gave a party, but he was too indisposed to appear at it.

Woodward took occasion to warn Blackman about Lewis's drinking and urged him to `` try to keep him sober ''.

After a dinner party for which she had come down to New York, Mrs. Lewis and Casanova arrived to see them off, and Elinor Wylie made tart observations that indicated that Lewis had been less discreet than he had promised to be about the real nature of their separation.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.

As they stood at the first-class rail, waving down to his wife and Casanova below, Lewis said, `` Earl, there is Gracie's future husband ''.

And when questioned by ship's reporters about the separation, she said, `` I adore him, and he adores me ''.