Sentence:  "Are you alone, Goodson? ... I thought, perhaps, that the ... young woman, Goodson, who supplanted Mary?"... / "She had a good many successors, John." / "You are such a <WSD>hound</WSD>, in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.