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"
Oh
yes
,
yes
,
"
she
replied
.
"
Well
,
you
can
keep
your
feelings
to
yourself
.
Go
to
the
devil
!
Go
to
the
devil
,
I
tell
you
!
"
Her
eyes
blazed
.
He
stood
now
,
fully
dressed
,
in
the
center
of
the
rug
before
her
,
and
Aileen
looked
at
him
,
keen
,
valiant
,
handsome
--
her
old
Frank
.
Once
again
she
regretted
her
nominal
faithlessness
,
and
raged
at
him
in
her
heart
for
his
indifference
.
"
You
dog
,
"
she
was
about
to
add
,
"
you
have
no
heart
!
"
but
she
changed
her
mind
.
Her
throat
tightened
and
her
eyes
filled
.
She
wanted
to
run
to
him
and
say
:
"
Oh
,
Frank
,
do
n't
you
understand
how
it
all
is
,
how
it
all
came
about
?
Wo
n't
you
love
me
again
--
ca
n't
you
?
"
But
she
restrained
herself
.
It
seemed
to
her
that
he
might
understand
--
that
he
would
,
in
fact
--
but
that
he
would
never
again
be
faithful
,
anyhow
.
And
she
would
so
gladly
have
discarded
Lynde
and
any
and
all
men
if
he
would
only
have
said
the
word
,
would
only
have
really
and
sincerely
wished
her
to
do
so
.
It
was
one
day
not
long
after
their
morning
quarrel
in
her
bedroom
that
Cowperwood
broached
the
matter
of
living
in
New
York
to
Aileen
,
pointing
out
that
thereby
his
art-collection
,
which
was
growing
constantly
,
might
be
more
suitably
housed
,
and
that
it
would
give
her
a
second
opportunity
to
enter
social
life
.
"
So
that
you
can
get
rid
of
me
out
here
,
"
commented
Aileen
,
little
knowing
of
Berenice
Fleming
.
"
Not
at
all
,
"
replied
Cowperwood
,
sweetly
.
"
You
see
how
things
are
.
There
's
no
chance
of
our
getting
into
Chicago
society
.
There
's
too
much
financial
opposition
against
me
here
.
If
we
had
a
big
house
in
New
York
,
such
as
I
would
build
,
it
would
be
an
introduction
in
itself
.
After
all
,
these
Chicagoans
are
n't
even
a
snapper
on
the
real
society
whip
.
It
's
the
Easterners
who
set
the
pace
,
and
the
New
--
Yorkers
most
of
all
.
If
you
want
to
say
the
word
,
I
can
sell
this
place
and
we
can
live
down
there
,
part
of
the
time
,
anyhow
.
I
could
spend
as
much
of
my
time
with
you
there
as
I
have
been
doing
here
--
perhaps
more
.
"
Because
of
her
soul
of
vanity
Aileen
's
mind
ran
forward
in
spite
of
herself
to
the
wider
opportunities
which
his
words
suggested
.
This
house
had
become
a
nightmare
to
her
--
a
place
of
neglect
and
bad
memories
.
Here
she
had
fought
with
Rita
Sohlberg
;
here
she
had
seen
society
come
for
a
very
little
while
only
to
disappear
;
here
she
had
waited
this
long
time
for
the
renewal
of
Cowperwood
's
love
,
which
was
now
obviously
never
to
be
restored
in
its
original
glamour
.
As
he
spoke
she
looked
at
him
quizzically
,
almost
sadly
in
her
great
doubt
.
At
the
same
time
she
could
not
help
reflecting
that
in
New
York
where
money
counted
for
so
much
,
and
with
Cowperwood
's
great
and
growing
wealth
and
prestige
behind
her
,
she
might
hope
to
find
herself
socially
at
last
.
"
Nothing
venture
,
nothing
have
"
had
always
been
her
motto
,
nailed
to
her
mast
,
though
her
equipment
for
the
life
she
now
craved
had
never
been
more
than
the
veriest
make-believe
--
painted
wood
and
tinsel
.
Vain
,
radiant
,
hopeful
Aileen
!
Yet
how
was
she
to
know
?
"
Very
well
,
"
she
observed
,
finally
.
"
Do
as
you
like
.
I
can
live
down
there
as
well
as
I
can
here
,
I
presume
--
alone
.
"
Cowperwood
knew
the
nature
of
her
longings
.
He
knew
what
was
running
in
her
mind
,
and
how
futile
were
her
dreams
.
Life
had
taught
him
how
fortuitous
must
be
the
circumstances
which
could
enable
a
woman
of
Aileen
's
handicaps
and
defects
to
enter
that
cold
upper
world
.
Yet
for
all
the
courage
of
him
,
for
the
very
life
of
him
,
he
could
not
tell
her
.
He
could
not
forget
that
once
,
behind
the
grim
bars
in
the
penitentiary
for
the
Eastern
District
of
Pennsylvania
,
he
had
cried
on
her
shoulder
.
He
could
not
be
an
ingrate
and
wound
her
with
his
inmost
thoughts
any
more
than
he
could
deceive
himself
.
A
New
York
mansion
and
the
dreams
of
social
supremacy
which
she
might
there
entertain
would
soothe
her
ruffled
vanity
and
assuage
her
disappointed
heart
;
and
at
the
same
time
he
would
be
nearer
Berenice
Fleming
Say
what
one
will
of
these
ferret
windings
of
the
human
mind
,
they
are
,
nevertheless
,
true
and
characteristic
of
the
average
human
being
,
and
Cowperwood
was
no
exception
.
He
saw
it
all
,
he
calculated
on
it
--
he
calculated
on
the
simple
humanity
of
Aileen
.
