Well... He started as a blackmailing, control freak, entitled prig of an idiot, not to mention an all-about-me horndog. He ended up as a complete idiot who pretty much forced her into being engaged to him. If he was married to a woman of character, I guarantee his body would be discovered in a closet with a hat pin or butcher knife through the heart. Aaaannnd ... for the final nail in his character's coffin, he was what Georgette Heyer referred to as a crashing bore.
