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Then
Aileen
,
being
lonely
,
called
to
see
Stephanie
,
and
occasionally
thereafter
Stephanie
came
over
to
the
South
Side
to
see
the
Cowperwoods
.
She
liked
to
roam
about
their
house
,
to
dream
meditatively
in
some
nook
of
the
rich
interior
,
with
a
book
for
company
.
She
liked
Cowperwood
's
pictures
,
his
jades
,
his
missals
,
his
ancient
radiant
glass
.
From
talking
with
Aileen
she
realized
that
the
latter
had
no
real
love
for
these
things
,
that
her
expressions
of
interest
and
pleasure
were
pure
make-believe
,
based
on
their
value
as
possessions
.
For
Stephanie
herself
certain
of
the
illuminated
books
and
bits
of
glass
had
a
heavy
,
sensuous
appeal
,
which
only
the
truly
artistic
can
understand
.
They
unlocked
dark
dream
moods
and
pageants
for
her
.
She
responded
to
them
,
lingered
over
them
,
experienced
strange
moods
from
them
as
from
the
orchestrated
richness
of
music
.
And
in
doing
so
she
thought
of
Cowperwood
often
.
Did
he
really
like
these
things
,
or
was
he
just
buying
them
to
be
buying
them
?
She
had
heard
much
of
the
pseudo
artistic
--
the
people
who
made
a
show
of
art
.
She
recalled
Cowperwood
as
he
walked
the
deck
of
the
Centurion
.
She
remembered
his
large
,
comprehensive
,
embracing
blue-gray
eyes
that
seemed
to
blaze
with
intelligence
.
He
seemed
to
her
quite
obviously
a
more
forceful
and
significant
man
than
her
father
,
and
yet
she
could
not
have
said
why
.
He
always
seemed
so
trigly
dressed
,
so
well
put
together
.
There
was
a
friendly
warmth
about
all
that
he
said
or
did
,
though
he
said
or
did
little
.
She
felt
that
his
eyes
were
mocking
,
that
back
in
his
soul
there
was
some
kind
of
humor
over
something
which
she
did
not
understand
quite
.
After
Stephanie
had
been
back
in
Chicago
six
months
,
during
which
time
she
saw
very
little
of
Cowperwood
,
who
was
busy
with
his
street-railway
programme
,
she
was
swept
into
the
net
of
another
interest
which
carried
her
away
from
him
and
Aileen
for
the
time
being
.
On
the
West
Side
,
among
a
circle
of
her
mother
's
friends
,
had
been
organized
an
Amateur
Dramatic
League
,
with
no
less
object
than
to
elevate
the
stage
.
That
world-old
problem
never
fails
to
interest
the
new
and
the
inexperienced
.
It
all
began
in
the
home
of
one
of
the
new
rich
of
the
West
Side
--
the
Timberlakes
.
They
,
in
their
large
house
on
Ashland
Avenue
,
had
a
stage
,
and
Georgia
Timberlake
,
a
romantic-minded
girl
of
twenty
with
flaxen
hair
,
imagined
she
could
act
.
Mrs.
Timberlake
,
a
fat
,
indulgent
mother
,
rather
agreed
with
her
.
The
whole
idea
,
after
a
few
discursive
performances
of
Milton
's
"
The
Masque
of
Comus
,
"
"
Pyramus
and
Thisbe
,
"
and
an
improved
Harlequin
and
Columbine
,
written
by
one
of
the
members
,
was
transferred
to
the
realm
of
the
studios
,
then
quartered
in
the
New
Arts
Building
.
An
artist
by
the
name
of
Lane
Cross
,
a
portrait-painter
,
who
was
much
less
of
an
artist
than
he
was
a
stage
director
,
and
not
much
of
either
,
but
who
made
his
living
by
hornswaggling
society
into
the
belief
that
he
could
paint
,
was
induced
to
take
charge
of
these
stage
performances
.
By
degrees
the
"
Garrick
Players
,
"
as
they
chose
to
call
themselves
,
developed
no
little
skill
and
craftsmanship
in
presenting
one
form
and
another
of
classic
and
semi-classic
play
.
"
Romeo
and
Juliet
,
"
with
few
properties
of
any
kind
,
"
The
Learned
Ladies
"
of
Moliere
,
Sheridan
's
"
The
Rivals
,
"
and
the
"
Elektra
"
of
Sophocles
were
all
given
.
Considerable
ability
of
one
kind
and
another
was
developed
,
the
group
including
two
actresses
of
subsequent
repute
on
the
American
stage
,
one
of
whom
was
Stephanie
Platow
.
There
were
some
ten
girls
and
women
among
the
active
members
,
and
almost
as
many
men
--
a
variety
of
characters
much
too
extended
to
discuss
here
.
There
was
a
dramatic
critic
by
the
name
of
Gardner
Knowles
,
a
young
man
,
very
smug
and
handsome
,
who
was
connected
with
the
Chicago
Press
.
Whipping
his
neatly
trousered
legs
with
his
bright
little
cane
,
he
used
to
appear
at
the
rooms
of
the
players
at
the
Tuesday
,
Thursday
,
and
Saturday
teas
which
they
inaugurated
,
and
discuss
the
merits
of
the
venture
.
Thus
the
Garrick
Players
were
gradually
introduced
into
the
newspapers
.
Lane
Cross
,
the
smooth-faced
,
pasty-souled
artist
who
had
charge
,
was
a
rake
at
heart
,
a
subtle
seducer
of
women
,
who
,
however
,
escaped
detection
by
a
smooth
,
conventional
bearing
.
He
was
interested
in
such
girls
as
Georgia
Timberlake
,
Irma
Ottley
,
a
rosy
,
aggressive
maiden
who
essayed
comic
roles
,
and
Stephanie
Platow
.
These
,
with
another
girl
,
Ethel
Tuckerman
,
very
emotional
and
romantic
,
who
could
dance
charmingly
and
sing
,
made
up
a
group
of
friends
which
became
very
close
.
Presently
intimacies
sprang
up
,
only
in
this
realm
,
instead
of
ending
in
marriage
,
they
merely
resulted
in
sex
liberty
.
Thus
Ethel
Tuckerman
became
the
mistress
of
Lane
Cross
;
an
illicit
attachment
grew
up
between
Irma
Ottley
and
a
young
society
idler
by
the
name
of
Bliss
Bridge
;
and
Gardner
Knowles
,
ardently
admiring
Stephanie
Platow
literally
seized
upon
her
one
afternoon
in
her
own
home
,
when
he
went
ostensibly
to
interview
her
,
and
overpersuaded
her
.
She
was
only
reasonably
fond
of
him
,
not
in
love
;
but
,
being
generous
,
nebulous
,
passionate
,
emotional
,
inexperienced
,
voiceless
,
and
vainly
curious
,
without
any
sense
of
the
meums
and
teums
that
govern
society
in
such
matters
,
she
allowed
this
rather
brutal
thing
to
happen
.
She
was
not
a
coward
--
was
too
nebulous
and
yet
forceful
to
be
such
.
Her
parents
never
knew
.
And
once
so
launched
,
another
world
--
that
of
sex
satisfaction
--
began
to
dawn
on
her
.
Were
these
young
people
evil
?
Let
the
social
philosopher
answer
.
One
thing
is
certain
:
They
did
not
establish
homes
and
raise
children
.
On
the
contrary
,
they
led
a
gay
,
butterfly
existence
for
nearly
two
years
;
then
came
a
gift
in
the
lute
.
Quarrels
developed
over
parts
,
respective
degrees
of
ability
,
and
leadership
.
Ethel
Tuckerman
fell
out
with
Lane
Cross
,
because
she
discovered
him
making
love
to
Irma
Ottley
.
Irma
and
Bliss
Bridge
released
each
other
,
the
latter
transferring
his
affections
to
Georgia
Timberlake
.
Stephanie
Platow
,
by
far
the
most
individual
of
them
all
,
developed
a
strange
inconsequence
as
to
her
deeds
It
was
when
she
was
drawing
near
the
age
of
twenty
that
the
affair
with
Gardner
Knowles
began
.
After
a
time
Lane
Cross
,
with
his
somewhat
earnest
attempt
at
artistic
interpretation
and
his
superiority
in
the
matter
of
years
--
he
was
forty
,
and
young
Knowles
only
twenty-four
--
seemed
more
interesting
to
Stephanie
,
and
he
was
quick
to
respond
.
There
followed
an
idle
,
passionate
union
with
this
man
,
which
seemed
important
,
but
was
not
so
at
all
.
And
then
it
was
that
Stephanie
began
dimly
to
perceive
that
it
was
on
and
on
that
the
blessings
lie
,
that
somewhere
there
might
be
some
man
much
more
remarkable
than
either
of
these
;
but
this
was
only
a
dream
.
She
thought
of
Cowperwood
at
times
;
but
he
seemed
to
her
to
be
too
wrapped
up
in
grim
tremendous
things
,
far
apart
from
this
romantic
world
of
amateur
dramatics
in
which
she
was
involved
.
Cowperwood
gained
his
first
real
impression
of
Stephanie
at
the
Garrick
Players
,
where
he
went
with
Aileen
once
to
witness
a
performance
of
"
Elektra
.
"
He
liked
Stephanie
particularly
in
this
part
,
and
thought
her
beautiful
.
One
evening
not
long
afterward
he
noticed
her
in
his
own
home
looking
at
his
jades
,
particularly
a
row
of
bracelets
and
ear-rings
.
He
liked
the
rhythmic
outline
of
her
body
,
which
reminded
him
of
a
letter
S
in
motion
.
Quite
suddenly
it
came
over
him
that
she
was
a
remarkable
girl
--
very
--
destined
,
perhaps
,
to
some
significant
future
.
At
the
same
time
Stephanie
was
thinking
of
him
.
"
Do
you
find
them
interesting
?
"
he
asked
,
stopping
beside
her
.
