The folk wisdom goes: “Trust, but verify.” This is important in all aspects—but especially when it comes to finding work. Could a young doctor, John Hobbs, have imagined that a private home for orphan girls he answered—hoping to get the long-awaited job—would turn out to be nothing less than a real “Boarding House of Love”? Young beauties seemed to be waiting only for Mr. Hobbs to make their boldest sexual fantasies come true with him.