He stayed in the houses of people his father would never have aspired to number among his clients.
He made love to any women he thought would further his Social life and offer him the comfort that he found was indispensable.
He was, as a man who despised him said contemptuously, “an amorous adventurer”.
Felix Hanson made up his mind that he would marry a rich heiress, forget his humble origins and move exclusively in the extravagant Social world that he enjoyed.
The only obstacle was that the fathers of the heiresses were far more discerning than their wives and daughters.
Long before Felix got to the point of declaring his intentions, he found himself manoeuvred away from his prey in a manner that told him all too clearly that he was wasting his time.
There was, however, a profusion
