People called him "clean-looking." Older women were interested in him because his father and mother had made a romantic runaway match, which was the talk of the town in the seventies, and had never been forgiven.

Worldly women were interested in him because he was the only grandson of Edwin Peter Brewster, who was many times a millionaire, and Monty was fairly certain to be his heir--barring an absent-minded gift to charity.

Younger women were interested for a much more obvious and simple reason: they liked him.
Men also took to Monty because he was a good sportsman, a man among men, because he had a decent respect for himself and no great aversion to work.
His father and mother had both died while he was still a child, and, as if to make up for his long relentlessness, the grandfather had taken the boy to his own house and had cared for him with what he called affection.

After college and some months on the continent, however, Monty had preferred to be independent.

Old Mr.Brewster had found him a place in the bank, but beyond this and occasional dinners, Monty asked for and received no favors.