On his way back to Austria in the spring of 1914, Schumpeter stopped in England to try to repair the damage done to his marriage by the long years of infidelity, indifference, and estrangement on both sides. But reconciliation was not to be. According to rumors that circulated later in Vienna, Frau Schumpeter had become enamored of an Egyptian nobleman, whom she had first met when the couple lived in Cairo, and Schumpeter could not persuade her to return to Graz. This turn of events neither scandalized nor depressed Schumpeter. ¹ True, he was fond of Gladys, but, up to this point in his life, he had had no deep and personal attachment for her or anyone else except his mother.