Rich Are DIfferent Part VI

Steve marries Emily, a year later, and Cornelius has become invovled with a widowed socialite who is 16 years his senior, Vivienne Coleman. He is infatuated with her and rushes into marriage. But within a year, he finds out that she married him for his money, and he sues for divorce. It is a bitter divorce. Vivienne is pregnant and the press and society think poorly of Cornelius for fighing his older pregnant wife in the courts. Then, while he is unhappily struggling with the divorce, he falls in love with another socialite, who is around his own age, and who is married to a politican. Cornelius is desperately in love and Alicia leaves her husband who has married her for her money and takes her small son and moves in with Cornelius. She is pregnant by her husband, so America explodes with fascinated horror at this other scandal. Cornelius is able to justify his behaviour to himself, he loves Alicia. Her marriage was very unhappy. But her husband starts a custody battle for both children, and gets them. Cornelius pays him a large sum of money to give her a divorce and Alicia marries him. However, she is a very maternal woman. She has few friends, and is very dependent on her lover and her children, but now she has lost them. She and Cornelius plan to have a large family... Steve and Emily have a baby daughter, but Cornelius, visiting his sister, catches mumps from Tony, Steve's young son and he does not realise it at first but it leaves him infertile. He and Alicia have 3 children between them but they will never have any more. He offers Alicia a divorce but she says no, she loves him and wanted his children, not anyone elses. The couple are both very much loners, and neither of them has ever had many friends, but they have each other. But Cornelius is badly shaken by his infertility. He throws himself into his work, but also becomes obsessed with Paul 's history. Paul had told him years ago that ALan Slade was his son, and now Cornelius wants to prove to himelf that that's true... so that maybe there is some slim hope that he himself can also father a son. He has always identified with Paul, since he lost his father young and his Mother like many of the Van zale women was too highbrow to suit his tastes. So he goes hunting for papers relating to Paul and finds a letter that Paul wrote to Dinah before is death, but never gave to her. In the letter Paul speaks of wanting to go to England with Dinah, and says that although Cornelius is his heir, he finds him cold and does not like him much. When he reads this, he is furious and hurt. He looked up to Paul and thought of him as a tough unsentimental man, now he has to see him as a middle aged man mooning over a younger woman, and a man who did not like him. He is badly shaken, and tells himself that some day, he will get back at Dinah for damaging his image of Paul. But as he's hunting through the papers, he finds the deeds to Mallingham and he realises that Paul still owned the house when he died, so it is now his property. He plans that soe day he will use this against her.