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"
Yes
.
"
Berenice
raised
her
glasses
.
"
Mrs.
Frank
Algernon
Cowperwood
,
the
wife
of
the
Chicago
millionaire
.
They
have
just
built
that
house
at
68th
Street
.
He
has
part
lease
of
number
9
,
I
believe
.
"
Berenice
almost
started
,
but
retained
her
composure
,
giving
merely
an
indifferent
glance
.
A
little
while
after
,
she
adjusted
her
glasses
carefully
and
studied
Mrs.
Cowperwood
.
She
noted
curiously
that
Aileen
's
hair
was
somewhat
the
color
of
her
own
--
more
carroty
red
.
She
studied
her
eyes
,
which
were
slightly
ringed
,
her
smooth
cheeks
and
full
mouth
,
thickened
somewhat
by
drinking
and
dissipation
.
Aileen
was
good-looking
,
she
thought
--
handsome
in
a
material
way
,
though
so
much
older
than
herself
.
Was
it
merely
age
that
was
alienating
Cowperwood
,
or
was
it
some
deep-seated
intellectual
difference
?
Obviously
Mrs.
Cowperwood
was
well
over
forty
--
a
fact
which
did
not
give
Berenice
any
sense
of
satisfaction
or
of
advantage
.
She
really
did
not
care
enough
.
It
did
occur
to
her
,
however
,
that
this
woman
whom
she
was
observing
had
probably
given
the
best
years
of
her
life
to
Cowperwood
--
the
brilliant
years
of
her
girlhood
.
And
now
he
was
tired
of
her
!
There
were
small
carefully
powdered
lines
at
the
tails
of
Aileen
's
eyes
and
at
the
corners
of
her
mouth
.
At
the
same
time
she
seemed
preternaturally
gay
,
kittenish
,
spoiled
.
With
her
were
two
men
--
one
a
well-known
actor
,
sinisterly
handsome
,
a
man
with
a
brutal
,
unclean
reputation
,
the
other
a
young
social
pretender
--
both
unknown
to
Berenice
.
Her
knowledge
was
to
come
from
her
escort
,
a
loquacious
youth
,
more
or
less
versed
,
as
it
happened
,
in
the
gay
life
of
the
city
.
"
I
hear
that
she
is
creating
quite
a
stir
in
Bohemia
,
"
he
observed
.
"
If
she
expects
to
enter
society
it
's
a
poor
way
to
begin
,
do
n't
you
think
?
"
"
Do
you
know
that
she
expects
to
?
"
"
All
the
usual
signs
are
out
--
a
box
here
,
a
house
on
Fifth
Avenue
.
"
This
study
of
Aileen
puzzled
and
disturbed
Berenice
a
little
.
Nevertheless
,
she
felt
immensely
superior
.
Her
soul
seemed
to
soar
over
the
plain
Aileen
inhabited
.
The
type
of
the
latter
's
escorts
suggested
error
--
a
lack
of
social
discrimination
.
Because
of
the
high
position
he
had
succeeded
in
achieving
Cowperwood
was
entitled
,
no
doubt
,
to
be
dissatisfied
.
His
wife
had
not
kept
pace
with
him
,
or
,
rather
,
had
not
eluded
him
in
his
onward
flight
--
had
not
run
swiftly
before
,
like
a
winged
victory
.
Berenice
reflected
that
if
she
were
dealing
with
such
a
man
he
should
never
know
her
truly
--
he
should
be
made
to
wonder
and
to
doubt
.
Lines
of
care
and
disappointment
should
never
mar
her
face
.
She
would
scheme
and
dream
and
conceal
and
evade
.
He
should
dance
attendance
,
whoever
he
was
.
Nevertheless
,
here
she
herself
was
,
at
twenty-two
,
unmarried
,
her
background
insecure
,
the
very
ground
on
which
she
walked
treacherous
.
Braxmar
knew
,
and
Beales
Chadsey
,
and
Cowperwood
.
At
least
three
or
four
of
her
acquaintances
must
have
been
at
the
Waldorf
on
that
fatal
night
.
How
long
would
it
be
before
others
became
aware
?
She
tried
eluding
her
mother
,
Cowperwood
,
and
the
situation
generally
by
freely
accepting
more
extended
invitations
and
by
trying
to
see
whether
there
was
not
some
opening
for
her
in
the
field
of
art
.
She
thought
of
painting
and
essayed
several
canvases
which
she
took
to
dealers
.
The
work
was
subtle
,
remote
,
fanciful
--
a
snow
scene
with
purple
edges
;
a
thinking
satyr
,
iron-like
in
his
heaviness
,
brooding
over
a
cloudy
valley
;
a
lurking
devil
peering
at
a
praying
Marguerite
;
a
Dutch
interior
inspired
by
Mrs.
Batjer
,
and
various
dancing
figures
.
Phlegmatic
dealers
of
somber
mien
admitted
some
promise
,
but
pointed
out
the
difficulty
of
sales
.
Beginners
were
numerous
.
Art
was
long
.
If
she
went
on
,
of
course
...
.
Let
them
see
other
things
.
She
turned
her
thoughts
to
dancing
.
