Even men who had European wives sometimes had local paramours. Venukuttan is envious as he finds Julie more attractive than any of his paramours. More recently, the area was known as a meeting place for gay paramours. One of Sir Gregory's later paramours was "Daphne Bentwater" from the typing pool. The intellectual paramours collected around 21,000 books, an enormous number for the time. Polly Garter scrubs floors and sings about her past paramours.