Rich Are DIfferent Part VI

Now back in New York, Steve marries Emily, a year later. Cornelius has become involved with a widowed socialite who is 16 years his senior, Vivienne Coleman. She is a cousin of the Da Costa brothers. 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, even though she is pregnant. He finds out that Vivienen was Stewart Da Costa's mistress and that later she was involved emotionally with Greg Da Costa. He tips off the ATF about Greg's smuggling activities. Greg is killed in a gun fight. It is a bitter divorce. Vivienne gets sympathy from the upper classes. The press, the gossip mags, and society think poorly of Cornelius for fighting his older pregnant wife in the courts. Then, while he is unhappily struggling with the bad publicity, he falls in love with another socialite, who is around his own age, and who is married to a politican, Ralph Foxworth. Cornelius is desperately in love. Alicia has been married very young and has discovered that her husband married her for her money. She now falls for Cornelius. She leaves her husband and takes her small son and moves in with him. 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. Ralph refuses to sell his children. He says he was willing to accept money to divorce Alicia as she was a whore. But he won't give up his children. Alicia has another son, Andrew whom she has to give up to Ralph. The couple marry, and they plan to have a large family... Steve and Emily have a baby daughter, Rosemary, but Cornelius, visiting his sister, catches mumps from Tony, Steve's young son. 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 else's. 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, and 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. He wants to believe 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. He loves his mother but she, like many of the Van Zale women, was too highbrow to get on well with him. So he goes hunting for papers and letters, relating to Paul and finds a letter that Paul wrote to Dinah before his 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 he is hurt that Paul did not seem to like him. He 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 some day he will use this against her.