Word: amoralist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite his perfunctory tribute to electricity, Pierre Mercadier did not really have confidence in progress or even in social stability. He was an egoist, individualist, amoralist-a sort of living symptom of creeping social sickness. He had a sizable fortune from his father, but taught history in the provinces to make a little extra. Pierre himself gambled in the stockmarket, but he was no wizard. He lost money...
Into the office of the London tuberculosis specialist Sir Colenso Ridgeon comes a beautiful woman (Katharine Cornell). She wants the doctor to cure her husband, a brilliant painter and incorrigible amoralist-a liar, cadger and thief in practical matters. Through some of the clankingest plot mechanics in history, Sir Colenso is forced to choose between saving the life of this caddish genius and that of a poor, upright little Government doctor. The issue is complicated by Sir Colenso's desire for the painter's wife. Finally he decides to abandon the painter-only to be spurned...