Like his father, Clark grew up to become a sybarite and bon vivant—but with one important difference: from an early age, he was addicted to analytical work of a sort more usual in the realms of business administration than of art patronage.
Clark had the insouciant attitude toward infidelity prevalent among the British upper classes in his time.
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Bystrom's powerful performance leaves us struggling to reconcile the daughter grieving for her father, and the lust-struck lover who abandons the loyal Ottavio for a quickie with the man who murdered him.