If he were not favored, there wouldn't have been a birthday party planned especially for him.
But to say he was favored, the party in the end changed its purpose, and the person being catered to became Roy Yarn.
You must understand that for business people like them, social connections were always the most important, Today your son shows his face, tomorrow my daughter shows hers.
They were all peers, and bluntly put, also the future heirs of these massive family fortunes; making friends early on would only be beneficial and not harmful to future business dealings.
If someone's child hadn't started socializing at the appropriate age, it meant either their status was not presentable, possibly an illegitimate child, or the family hadn't planned on grooming them as an heir.
Clearly, people guessed it was the latter.
After all, Louis Snyder was in no way associated with being an illegitimate child.
