Nick Jenkins, who has come to a remote seaside hotel to bury his tiresome Uncle Giles, runs across the bounderish Duport, an Eton and Oxford acquaintance whose wife has briefly .
Its features are a bounderish British blend of sad sack and pukka sahib: busby brows that shoot up in startled innocence or beetle down with Mac the Knife malevolence; lugubrious .
Fame, money, wit, his bounderish bounce and white-maned, apple-cheeked handsomeness proved catnip to women, and he maintained what his son calls a "modern seraglio" at Churt, his .