Roderick Pyke
Droopy son of George Alexander Pyke, Lord Tilbury, Oxford-educated, poetry-loving Roderick is too much of an intellectual to please his father's ruthless business mind. A cowardly man, in Bill the Conqueror he develops a fear of bookies attacking him, to get revenge for articles written for Society Spice by his subordinate, the slimy Percy Pilbeam. Having inherited his mother's pretty eyes and hair, he also harbours a secret affection for the stenographer in his office, and a longing to live in Italy and write poetry.
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