“The Proprietor” is the first novel of the trilogy “The Forsyte Saga.” It tells of a century when the instinct of the family line was the main driving force. But no family traditions, no home hearth, no property can withstand the chaos introduced into human life by Beauty and Passion. “If in marriage physical attraction for one of the parties is absent, then neither pity, nor reason, nor sense of duty will overcome the aversion instilled in a person by nature itself. Whether this is bad or good doesn’t matter, but it is so.”