Roderick Pyke, o.s. of the late Lucy Maynard and Sir George Alexander Pyke, Lord Tilbury. A graduate of Oxford, published a book on the prose of Walter Pater at his own expense. A tall, thin young man with large brown eyes and chestnut hair swept flowingly over the forehead, lives at #7 Lidderdale Mansions, Sloane Square. Nominal and unwilling editor of Society Spice in Bill the Conqueror, wants to marry Flick Sheridan.

• Bill the Conqueror