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"
Oh
!
"
observed
Aileen
,
nonchalantly
.
She
was
secretly
irritated
to
think
that
Mrs.
Huddlestone
should
find
it
necessary
to
point
out
Mrs.
Merrill
to
her
as
a
superior
person
.
"
You
know
,
she
darkens
her
eyebrows
a
little
,
I
think
,
"
suggested
Mrs.
Huddlestone
,
studying
her
enviously
.
"
Her
husband
,
they
say
,
is
n't
the
most
faithful
person
in
the
world
.
There
's
another
woman
,
a
Mrs.
Gladdens
,
that
lives
very
close
to
them
that
he
's
very
much
interested
in
.
"
"
Oh
!
"
said
Aileen
,
cautiously
.
After
her
own
Philadelphia
experience
she
had
decided
to
be
on
her
guard
and
not
indulge
in
too
much
gossip
.
Arrows
of
this
particular
kind
could
so
readily
fly
in
her
direction
.
"
But
her
set
is
really
much
the
smartest
,
"
complimented
Aileen
's
companion
.
Thereafter
it
was
Aileen
's
ambition
to
associate
with
Mrs.
Anson
Merrill
,
to
be
fully
and
freely
accepted
by
her
.
She
did
not
know
,
although
she
might
have
feared
,
that
that
ambition
was
never
to
be
realized
.
But
there
were
others
who
had
called
at
the
first
Cowperwood
home
,
or
with
whom
the
Cowperwoods
managed
to
form
an
acquaintance
.
There
were
the
Sunderland
Sledds
,
Mr.
Sledd
being
general
traffic
manager
of
one
of
the
southwestern
railways
entering
the
city
,
and
a
gentleman
of
taste
and
culture
and
some
wealth
;
his
wife
an
ambitious
nobody
.
There
were
the
Walter
Rysam
Cottons
,
Cotton
being
a
wholesale
coffee-broker
,
but
more
especially
a
local
social
litterateur
;
his
wife
a
graduate
of
Vassar
.
There
were
the
Norrie
Simmses
,
Simms
being
secretary
and
treasurer
of
the
Douglas
Trust
and
Savings
Company
,
and
a
power
in
another
group
of
financial
people
,
a
group
entirely
distinct
from
that
represented
by
Addison
and
Rambaud
.
Others
included
the
Stanislau
Hoecksemas
,
wealthy
furriers
;
the
Duane
Kingslands
,
wholesale
flour
;
the
Webster
Israelses
,
packers
;
the
Bradford
Candas
,
jewelers
.
All
these
people
amounted
to
something
socially
.
They
all
had
substantial
homes
and
substantial
incomes
,
so
that
they
were
worthy
of
consideration
.
The
difference
between
Aileen
and
most
of
the
women
involved
a
difference
between
naturalism
and
illusion
.
But
this
calls
for
some
explanation
.
To
really
know
the
state
of
the
feminine
mind
at
this
time
,
one
would
have
to
go
back
to
that
period
in
the
Middle
Ages
when
the
Church
flourished
and
the
industrious
poet
,
half
schooled
in
the
facts
of
life
,
surrounded
women
with
a
mystical
halo
.
Since
that
day
the
maiden
and
the
matron
as
well
has
been
schooled
to
believe
that
she
is
of
a
finer
clay
than
man
,
that
she
was
born
to
uplift
him
,
and
that
her
favors
are
priceless
.
This
rose-tinted
mist
of
romance
,
having
nothing
to
do
with
personal
morality
,
has
brought
about
,
nevertheless
,
a
holier-than-thou
attitude
of
women
toward
men
,
and
even
of
women
toward
women
.
Now
the
Chicago
atmosphere
in
which
Aileen
found
herself
was
composed
in
part
of
this
very
illusion
.
The
ladies
to
whom
she
had
been
introduced
were
of
this
high
world
of
fancy
.
They
conceived
themselves
to
be
perfect
,
even
as
they
were
represented
in
religious
art
and
in
fiction
.
Their
husbands
must
be
models
,
worthy
of
their
high
ideals
,
and
other
women
must
have
no
blemish
of
any
kind
.
Aileen
,
urgent
,
elemental
,
would
have
laughed
at
all
this
if
she
could
have
understood
.
Not
understanding
,
she
felt
diffident
and
uncertain
of
herself
in
certain
presences
.
