Summary
A Gilded-Age labyrinth of marble corridors and gaslight whispers, The Romance Promoters drapes its ironies in velvet: Quentard Lorris, colossus of capital, strings purse-strings like trip-wires around his guileless heiress Betty, then looses a pack of bespoke wolves—trustees in morning coats, a secretary who signs cheques the way card-sharps palm aces, a Continental count whose titles are as rented as his diamonds. Enter Todfield King, civil engineer, sleeves rolled like a working stiff, blueprints under one arm and a stubborn moral compass in his breast pocket; he arrives to drain swamps and instead finds himself neck-deep in a swamp of fiduciary sin. Rumours are seeded, scaffolding collapses, a midnight abduction clatters across moonlit balustrades, and only after fists, vows and a confession of paternal theater does the curtain fall on a marriage that was, in truth, the final engineered structure—its foundations tested not by soil but by the tremors of greed.
Synopsis
Quentard Lorris appoints several trustees to manage the fortune of his daughter Betty, who will inherit millions. The trustees, along with Lorris' secretary, Simon Slane, and suitor, Count Vorilla, are all anxious to get their hands on Betty's money. Jason Downer hires civil engineer Todfield King to do work on Lorris' estate, then Gleason and other trustees accuse King of being a fortune hunter. Although he is fond of Betty, King determines to quit. Soon Downer appears, telling him that Betty is in danger from Count Vorilla. After a struggle, King rescues Betty from the Count and his gang, and the two come to an understanding. Finally, Lorris and Downer arrive, and Lorris reveals that he was testing King to see if he would be a fit husband for his daughter.
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