Rich Are Different Part II

Paul meets Dinah, who tells him that he could help her, if he wanted to, if he could lend her enough money to buy her manor house and repair it, and some money to start up a cosmetics business. She learned about making perfumes from an old Indian Ayah and she believes that she could make a decent living if she had a start. Paul buys the house, and Dinah promises to buy it from him when she is making money. Paul finds her amusing, and she is only 21, so her youth stimulates him. He seduces her and they start an affair, and he agrees to fund her in her business venture. Dinah falls in love with him, though he is a lot older than her and married. He is intelligent and well read, and a talented businessman to boot. However, to Paul's horror, she tells him that she sees nothing wrong with having a child outside marriage, in the modern world. He says he doesnt want children. He lost his only daughter Vicky, and never wanted to have any more after that. Dinah becomes pregnant, and Paul cannot persuade her to have an abortion. However, he then gets word from the US that business rivals are causing trouble and he will have to go home. He leaves Dinah but she has convinced herself that he loves her and will come back some day. Back in the US, Paul has to deal with trouble from the sons of Jason Da Costa, who were his daughter Vicky's stepsons. He goes back to his wife, Sylvia, who is a gentle beautiful woman who adores him and has made up her mind to put up his affairs, in order to hold onto her marriage. Sylvia is lonely because Paul does not want children and she herself in any case has not been able to carry children and has had several miscarriages. Paul also tells himself he really must try and get to know Cornelius, his great nephew who is his nearest male heir. Cornelius lives in a provincial city, in the Mid West, with his mother, stepfather and sister and Paul has been thinking for ages that the boy might be able to cope with inheriting the bank and being very rich, but he must get to know him and see if he is tough enough to cope. So he invites the 14 year old boy to New York. Sylvia likes him. He is handsome, well brought up and charming, and she wishes he were her son.. but he does not share any of Paul's intellectual interests. Paul thinks however that the boy is tough and strong minded, and that he is intelligent enough to learn about banking and seems keen on the idea.