El excitante señor Lavelle

When Benjamin and Edgar Bowen embark on a Grand Tour of Europe, they are ready to meet Quality People. They have chests full of golden wigs and matching suits, a hunger to experience the architectural wonders of Ancient Rome, and the ability to quote Voltaire (in detail). They will make contacts and establish themselves in high society, just as their mother had planned. But it soon becomes evident that their clothes are not the right gray, their smiles are too prepared, their appreciation of the arts, ridiculous. Class, they learn, is not something that can be studied. Benjamin's true education begins when he meets Horace Lavelle. Attractive, charismatic and seductive, Lavelle enjoys skewing the pretensions and prejudices of those around him. And he consumes Benjamin's every thought.