He belonged to a fashionable New York family of wealth, and he had been a young lion at Pasadena during the winter just past.

He owned automobiles and a yacht and--an extensive wardrobe.

These notable assets had much to do with the conquest of Mrs.
Rodney: she looked with favour upon the transitory Mr.Ulstervelt, and believed in her heart that he had something to do with the location of the shining sun.

But of this affair more anon, as the novelists say.
Brock was presented to the Rodneys just before the party went in to dinner.

He managed his eyeglass and his drawl bravely, and got on swimmingly with the elder Rodneys, until Constance appeared with Katherine and Freddie Ulstervelt.