 While he was abroad, Lachmann's spending continued, and Herz's family turned her out of the house in frustration.When it became clear that Lachmann was destitute after Herz left for America, one of her friends, courtesan Esther Guimond, had a solution.She took Lachmann to a fashionable milliner, Camille, who advised the Russian émigré to seek her fortune in London, where she could take advantage of that "fairy-land in which noble strangers present beautiful women with £40,000 or £50,000 a year in pin-money."