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She
met
his
eagerness
with
that
smiling
,
tantalizing
passivity
which
he
had
so
much
admired
but
which
this
time
was
tinged
strongly
with
a
communicated
desire
.
He
thought
he
should
never
have
enough
of
her
,
her
beautiful
face
,
her
lovely
arms
,
her
smooth
,
lymphatic
body
.
They
were
like
two
children
,
billing
and
cooing
,
driving
,
dining
,
seeing
the
sights
.
He
was
curious
to
visit
the
financial
sections
of
both
cities
.
New
York
and
Boston
appealed
to
him
as
commercially
solid
.
He
wondered
,
as
he
observed
the
former
,
whether
he
should
ever
leave
Philadelphia
.
He
was
going
to
be
very
happy
there
now
,
he
thought
,
with
Lillian
and
possibly
a
brood
of
young
Cowperwoods
.
He
was
going
to
work
hard
and
make
money
.
With
his
means
and
hers
now
at
his
command
,
he
might
become
,
very
readily
,
notably
wealthy
.
The
home
atmosphere
which
they
established
when
they
returned
from
their
honeymoon
was
a
great
improvement
in
taste
over
that
which
had
characterized
the
earlier
life
of
Mrs.
Cowperwood
as
Mrs.
Semple
.
They
had
decided
to
occupy
her
house
,
on
North
Front
Street
,
for
a
while
at
least
.
Cowperwood
,
aggressive
in
his
current
artistic
mood
,
had
objected
at
once
after
they
were
engaged
to
the
spirit
of
the
furniture
and
decorations
,
or
lack
of
them
,
and
had
suggested
that
he
be
allowed
to
have
it
brought
more
in
keeping
with
his
idea
of
what
was
appropriate
.
During
the
years
in
which
he
had
been
growing
into
manhood
he
had
come
instinctively
into
sound
notions
of
what
was
artistic
and
refined
.
He
had
seen
so
many
homes
that
were
more
distinguished
and
harmonious
than
his
own
.
One
could
not
walk
or
drive
about
Philadelphia
without
seeing
and
being
impressed
with
the
general
tendency
toward
a
more
cultivated
and
selective
social
life
.
Many
excellent
and
expensive
houses
were
being
erected
.
The
front
lawn
,
with
some
attempt
at
floral
gardening
,
was
achieving
local
popularity
.
In
the
homes
of
the
Tighes
,
the
Leighs
,
Arthur
Rivers
,
and
others
,
he
had
noticed
art
objects
of
some
distinction
--
bronzes
,
marbles
,
hangings
,
pictures
,
clocks
,
rugs
.
It
seemed
to
him
now
that
his
comparatively
commonplace
house
could
be
made
into
something
charming
and
for
comparatively
little
money
.
The
dining-room
for
instance
which
,
through
two
plain
windows
set
in
a
hat
side
wall
back
of
the
veranda
,
looked
south
over
a
stretch
of
grass
and
several
trees
and
bushes
to
a
dividing
fence
where
the
Semple
property
ended
and
a
neighbor
's
began
,
could
be
made
so
much
more
attractive
.
That
fence
--
sharp-pointed
,
gray
palings
--
could
be
torn
away
and
a
hedge
put
in
its
place
.
The
wall
which
divided
the
dining-room
from
the
parlor
could
be
knocked
through
and
a
hanging
of
some
pleasing
character
put
in
its
place
.
A
bay-window
could
be
built
to
replace
the
two
present
oblong
windows
--
a
bay
which
would
come
down
to
the
floor
and
open
out
on
the
lawn
via
swiveled
,
diamond-shaped
,
lead-paned
frames
.
All
this
shabby
,
nondescript
furniture
,
collected
from
heaven
knows
where
--
partly
inherited
from
the
Semples
and
the
Wiggins
and
partly
bought
--
could
be
thrown
out
or
sold
and
something
better
and
more
harmonious
introduced
.
He
knew
a
young
man
by
the
name
of
Ellsworth
,
an
architect
newly
graduated
from
a
local
school
,
with
whom
he
had
struck
up
an
interesting
friendship
--
one
of
those
inexplicable
inclinations
of
temperament
.
Wilton
Ellsworth
was
an
artist
in
spirit
,
quiet
,
meditative
,
refined
.
From
discussing
the
quality
of
a
certain
building
on
Chestnut
Street
which
was
then
being
erected
,
and
which
Ellsworth
pronounced
atrocious
,
they
had
fallen
to
discussing
art
in
general
,
or
the
lack
of
it
,
in
America
.
And
it
occurred
to
him
that
Ellsworth
was
the
man
to
carry
out
his
decorative
views
to
a
nicety
.
When
he
suggested
the
young
man
to
Lillian
,
she
placidly
agreed
with
him
and
also
with
his
own
ideas
of
how
the
house
could
be
revised
.
So
while
they
were
gone
on
their
honeymoon
Ellsworth
began
the
revision
on
an
estimated
cost
of
three
thousand
dollars
,
including
the
furniture
.
It
was
not
completed
for
nearly
three
weeks
after
their
return
;
but
when
finished
made
a
comparatively
new
house
.
The
dining-room
bay
hung
low
over
the
grass
,
as
Frank
wished
,
and
the
windows
were
diamond-paned
and
leaded
,
swiveled
on
brass
rods
.
The
parlor
and
dining-room
were
separated
by
sliding
doors
;
but
the
intention
was
to
hang
in
this
opening
a
silk
hanging
depicting
a
wedding
scene
in
Normandy
.
Old
English
oak
was
used
in
the
dining-room
,
an
American
imitation
of
Chippendale
and
Sheraton
for
the
sitting-room
and
the
bedrooms
.
There
were
a
few
simple
water-colors
hung
here
and
there
,
some
bronzes
of
Hosmer
and
Powers
,
a
marble
venus
by
Potter
,
a
now
forgotten
sculptor
,
and
other
objects
of
art
--
nothing
of
any
distinction
.
Pleasing
,
appropriately
colored
rugs
covered
the
floor
.
Mrs.
Cowperwood
was
shocked
by
the
nudity
of
the
Venus
which
conveyed
an
atmosphere
of
European
freedom
not
common
to
America
;
but
she
said
nothing
.
It
was
all
harmonious
and
soothing
,
and
she
did
not
feel
herself
capable
to
judge
.
Frank
knew
about
these
things
so
much
better
than
she
did
.
Then
with
a
maid
and
a
man
of
all
work
installed
,
a
program
of
entertaining
was
begun
on
a
small
scale
.
Those
who
recall
the
early
years
of
their
married
life
can
best
realize
the
subtle
changes
which
this
new
condition
brought
to
Frank
,
for
,
like
all
who
accept
the
hymeneal
yoke
,
he
was
influenced
to
a
certain
extent
by
the
things
with
which
he
surrounded
himself
.
Primarily
,
from
certain
traits
of
his
character
,
one
would
have
imagined
him
called
to
be
a
citizen
of
eminent
respectability
and
worth
.
He
appeared
to
be
an
ideal
home
man
.
He
delighted
to
return
to
his
wife
in
the
evenings
,
leaving
the
crowded
downtown
section
where
traffic
clamored
and
men
hurried
.
Here
he
could
feel
that
he
was
well-stationed
and
physically
happy
in
life
.
The
thought
of
the
dinner-table
with
candles
upon
it
(
his
idea
)
;
the
thought
of
Lillian
in
a
trailing
gown
of
pale-blue
or
green
silk
--
he
liked
her
in
those
colors
;
the
thought
of
a
large
fireplace
flaming
with
solid
lengths
of
cord-wood
,
and
Lillian
snuggling
in
his
arms
,
gripped
his
immature
imagination
.
As
has
been
said
before
,
he
cared
nothing
for
books
,
but
life
,
pictures
,
trees
,
physical
contact
--
these
,
in
spite
of
his
shrewd
and
already
gripping
financial
calculations
,
held
him
.
To
live
richly
,
joyously
,
fully
--
his
whole
nature
craved
that
.
And
Mrs.
Cowperwood
,
in
spite
of
the
difference
in
their
years
,
appeared
to
be
a
fit
mate
for
him
at
this
time
.
She
was
once
awakened
,
and
for
the
time
being
,
clinging
,
responsive
,
dreamy
.
His
mood
and
hers
was
for
a
baby
,
and
in
a
little
while
that
happy
expectation
was
whispered
to
him
by
her
.
She
had
half
fancied
that
her
previous
barrenness
was
due
to
herself
,
and
was
rather
surprised
and
delighted
at
the
proof
that
it
was
not
so
.
It
opened
new
possibilities
--
a
seemingly
glorious
future
of
which
she
was
not
afraid
.
He
liked
it
,
the
idea
of
self-duplication
.
It
was
almost
acquisitive
,
this
thought
.
For
days
and
weeks
and
months
and
years
,
at
least
the
first
four
or
five
,
he
took
a
keen
satisfaction
in
coming
home
evenings
,
strolling
about
the
yard
,
driving
with
his
wife
,
having
friends
in
to
dinner
,
talking
over
with
her
in
an
explanatory
way
the
things
he
intended
to
do
.
She
did
not
understand
his
financial
abstrusities
,
and
he
did
not
trouble
to
make
them
clear
.
But
love
,
her
pretty
body
,
her
lips
,
her
quiet
manner
--
the
lure
of
all
these
combined
,
and
his
two
children
,
when
they
came
--
two
in
four
years
--
held
him
.
He
would
dandle
Frank
,
Jr.
,
who
was
the
first
to
arrive
,
on
his
knee
,
looking
at
his
chubby
feet
,
his
kindling
eyes
,
his
almost
formless
yet
bud-like
mouth
,
and
wonder
at
the
process
by
which
children
came
into
the
world
.
There
was
so
much
to
think
of
in
this
connection
--
the
spermatozoic
beginning
,
the
strange
period
of
gestation
in
women
,
the
danger
of
disease
and
delivery
.
He
had
gone
through
a
real
period
of
strain
when
Frank
,
Jr.
,
was
born
,
for
Mrs.
Cowperwood
was
frightened
.
He
feared
for
the
beauty
of
her
body
--
troubled
over
the
danger
of
losing
her
;
and
he
actually
endured
his
first
worry
when
he
stood
outside
the
door
the
day
the
child
came
.
