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Aileen
had
no
spiritual
dread
whatever
.
Cowperwood
was
without
spiritual
or
religious
feeling
.
He
looked
at
this
girl
,
and
his
one
thought
was
how
could
he
so
deceive
the
world
that
he
could
enjoy
her
love
and
leave
his
present
state
undisturbed
.
Love
her
he
did
surely
.
Business
necessitated
his
calling
at
the
Butlers
'
quite
frequently
,
and
on
each
occasion
he
saw
Aileen
.
She
managed
to
slip
forward
and
squeeze
his
hand
the
first
time
he
came
--
to
steal
a
quick
,
vivid
kiss
;
and
another
time
,
as
he
was
going
out
,
she
suddenly
appeared
from
behind
the
curtains
hanging
at
the
parlor
door
.
"
Honey
!
"
The
voice
was
soft
and
coaxing
.
He
turned
,
giving
her
a
warning
nod
in
the
direction
of
her
father
's
room
upstairs
.
She
stood
there
,
holding
out
one
hand
,
and
he
stepped
forward
for
a
second
.
Instantly
her
arms
were
about
his
neck
,
as
he
slipped
his
about
her
waist
.
"
I
long
to
see
you
so
.
"
"
I
,
too
.
I
'll
fix
some
way
.
I
'm
thinking
.
"
He
released
her
arms
,
and
went
out
,
and
she
ran
to
the
window
and
looked
out
after
him
.
He
was
walking
west
on
the
street
,
for
his
house
was
only
a
few
blocks
away
,
and
she
looked
at
the
breadth
of
his
shoulders
,
the
balance
of
his
form
.
He
stepped
so
briskly
,
so
incisively
.
Ah
,
this
was
a
man
!
He
was
her
Frank
.
She
thought
of
him
in
that
light
already
.
Then
she
sat
down
at
the
piano
and
played
pensively
until
dinner
.
And
it
was
so
easy
for
the
resourceful
mind
of
Frank
Cowperwood
,
wealthy
as
he
was
,
to
suggest
ways
and
means
.
In
his
younger
gallivantings
about
places
of
ill
repute
,
and
his
subsequent
occasional
variations
from
the
straight
and
narrow
path
,
he
had
learned
much
of
the
curious
resources
of
immorality
.
Being
a
city
of
five
hundred
thousand
and
more
at
this
time
,
Philadelphia
had
its
nondescript
hotels
,
where
one
might
go
,
cautiously
and
fairly
protected
from
observation
;
and
there
were
houses
of
a
conservative
,
residential
character
,
where
appointments
might
be
made
,
for
a
consideration
.
And
as
for
safeguards
against
the
production
of
new
life
--
they
were
not
mysteries
to
him
any
longer
.
He
knew
all
about
them
.
Care
was
the
point
of
caution
.
He
had
to
be
cautious
,
for
he
was
so
rapidly
coming
to
be
an
influential
and
a
distinguished
man
.
Aileen
,
of
course
,
was
not
conscious
,
except
in
a
vague
way
,
of
the
drift
of
her
passion
;
the
ultimate
destiny
to
which
this
affection
might
lead
was
not
clear
to
her
.
Her
craving
was
for
love
--
to
be
fondled
and
caressed
--
and
she
really
did
not
think
so
much
further
.
Further
thoughts
along
this
line
were
like
rats
that
showed
their
heads
out
of
dark
holes
in
shadowy
corners
and
scuttled
back
at
the
least
sound
.
And
,
anyhow
,
all
that
was
to
be
connected
with
Cowperwood
would
be
beautiful
.
She
really
did
not
think
that
he
loved
her
yet
as
he
should
;
but
he
would
.
She
did
not
know
that
she
wanted
to
interfere
with
the
claims
of
his
wife
.
She
did
not
think
she
did
.
But
it
would
not
hurt
Mrs.
Cowperwood
if
Frank
loved
her
--
Aileen
--
also
.
