Rich Are Different Part V

Steven is married with 2 sons, and like Paul, he is not a faithful husband. He is a bon vivant who likes to party and drink and play sports. When he has to go to London, in 1929 - 3 years after Paul's death, he thinks about Dinah and wonders if she might be up for an affair with him. He looks forward to London, as he and Cornelius are not getting on and the younger man is richer and more powerful than he is. Cornelius has blackmailed him into having a leading role in the bank when he is very young, by reminding him that he has a tape of Steve's conversation with Blair. He knows of Steve's covering up the murder of O'Reilly... and the behaviour of Charley Blair. He tells Steve that if he's forced to go to the police about this issue, he will claim that he was not part of the covering up. He can say that he was a scared kid who didn't know what to do when he found out about it. So Steve agrees to his having a more prominent role in the bank. Steve goes to London alone. Caroline, his wife, stays in New York with the children but she will follow on later. Caroline does not like England and doesn't really want to go with him. Steve calls Dinah soon after his arrival, and they embark on an affair, as he hoped. He is touched by Alan, Paul's son, who is a bright little boy, and looks like Paul. Steve gets interested in Dinah's cosmetics business which is doing very well. Dinah asks Steve if she should approach Cornelius now, to buy back Mallingham. He warily tells her that Cornelius is a far tougher customer than he had originally thought. He tells her that the deeds to the house seem to have been lost. The odds are that with all his property, Cornelius will never find out that he is the legal owner of Mallingham and in due course, Dinah can leave it to her heirs. Dinah then tells him she's pregnant, and Steve tells her that he does not want her to have his child outside marriage, like Alan. He says he will go home and talk to Caroline and get a divorce. Dinah has come to realise that it was a mistake in having Alan out of wedlock and she's fond enough of Steve to think that marriage with him might be a happy one. But she is aware that she underestimated Sylvia's hold on Paul... Steve plans to go back to the US to see his wife, and ask for a divorce, but Caroline wires to say she is ill. So now, he feels that he has to put off the idea of divorce. Caroline recovers, but before Steve can go home, he and Dinah have a bitter row. The Wall St Crash happens and his twin brothers are caught in a financial scandal. Dinah tells him not to get drawn into the problems of the bank in New York, and to let his brothers sort out their own mess. They both get angry and she says that she loved him and wanted him to be her husband but he has always been a clumsy insensitive man with women. Angrily, he retorts that Paul only had women to prove he wasn't gay. Steve breaks up with her and returns to America, where the bank is in a mess, and the Crash has a terrible effect on the economy. His twin brothers who are not very bright, have embezzled money. He also finds that his wife has just died, her cancer had returned. He urgently goes to take care of his boys. Cornelius has not lost any of his fortune because he was rich enough to settle for conservative investments. Cornelius' sister Emily is a clever girl who is also very pretty. She is a little older than her brother. She had gone to look after Steve's sons when Caroline got ill again. Steve is very grateful that someone was willing to take care of them. He still feels bitterly angry at Dinah's criticisms of him, and is upset that he may never see the babies that she is expecting.