He'd been tricked into marriage after abriefencounter with the beautiful and soulless socialite Sylvia (Rebecca Hall), the ceaselessly disparaging virago of a wife who will haunt his life.
Later, in one tidal wave of a night, he comes on to a woman in a bar, gets hoofed in the face by her boyfriend, swings by a gay club for abriefencounter (any port in a storm), and then rounds off the evening with a nice warm threesome.