- By the time the English group had recuperated enough to leave Italy, the two men are good friends again.
- On the way back to England, Philip received another disappointment. Because of the romantic atmosphere and their close association, he has fallen in love with Miss Abbott.
- He almost proposes to her when they are talking about love and the future, but she, thinking he had suspected it long before, tells him of her passion for Gino.
- Philip for years thought that he understood the world, but he now recognizes that he really understood nothing. Womp womp.