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"
Nevertheless
,
he
was
sorry
to
see
her
yield
so
weakly
.
It
did
not
please
him
.
He
resolved
some
day
to
have
a
grim
adjustment
with
society
on
this
score
.
Meanwhile
Aileen
was
recovering
her
spirits
.
She
was
ashamed
of
her
weakness
when
she
saw
how
forcefully
he
faced
it
all
.
"
Oh
,
Frank
,
"
she
exclaimed
,
finally
,
"
you
're
always
so
wonderful
.
You
're
such
a
darling
.
"
"
Never
mind
,
"
he
said
,
cheerfully
.
"
If
we
do
n't
win
this
game
here
in
Chicago
,
we
will
somewhere
.
"
He
was
thinking
of
the
brilliant
manner
in
which
he
had
adjusted
his
affairs
with
the
old
gas
companies
and
Mr.
Schryhart
,
and
how
thoroughly
he
would
handle
some
other
matters
when
the
time
came
.
It
was
during
the
year
that
followed
their
social
repudiation
,
and
the
next
and
the
next
,
that
Cowperwood
achieved
a
keen
realization
of
what
it
would
mean
to
spend
the
rest
of
his
days
in
social
isolation
,
or
at
least
confined
in
his
sources
of
entertainment
to
a
circle
or
element
which
constantly
reminded
him
of
the
fact
that
he
was
not
identified
with
the
best
,
or
,
at
least
,
not
the
most
significant
,
however
dull
that
might
be
.
When
he
had
first
attempted
to
introduce
Aileen
into
society
it
was
his
idea
that
,
however
tame
they
might
chance
to
find
it
to
begin
with
,
they
themselves
,
once
admitted
,
could
make
it
into
something
very
interesting
and
even
brilliant
.
Since
the
time
the
Cowperwoods
had
been
repudiated
,
however
,
they
had
found
it
necessary
,
if
they
wished
any
social
diversion
at
all
,
to
fall
back
upon
such
various
minor
elements
as
they
could
scrape
an
acquaintance
with
--
passing
actors
and
actresses
,
to
whom
occasionally
they
could
give
a
dinner
;
artists
and
singers
whom
they
could
invite
to
the
house
upon
gaining
an
introduction
;
and
,
of
course
,
a
number
of
the
socially
unimportant
,
such
as
the
Haatstaedts
,
Hoecksemas
,
Videras
,
Baileys
,
and
others
still
friendly
and
willing
to
come
in
a
casual
way
.
Cowperwood
found
it
interesting
from
time
to
time
to
invite
a
business
friend
,
a
lover
of
pictures
,
or
some
young
artist
to
the
house
to
dinner
or
for
the
evening
,
and
on
these
occasions
Aileen
was
always
present
.
The
Addisons
called
or
invited
them
occasionally
.
But
it
was
a
dull
game
,
the
more
so
since
their
complete
defeat
was
thus
all
the
more
plainly
indicated
.
This
defeat
,
as
Cowperwood
kept
reflecting
,
was
really
not
his
fault
at
all
.
He
had
been
getting
along
well
enough
personally
.
If
Aileen
had
only
been
a
somewhat
different
type
of
woman
!
Nevertheless
,
he
was
in
no
way
prepared
to
desert
or
reproach
her
.
She
had
clung
to
him
through
his
stormy
prison
days
.
She
had
encouraged
him
when
he
needed
encouragement
.
He
would
stand
by
her
and
see
what
could
be
done
a
little
later
;
but
this
ostracism
was
a
rather
dreary
thing
to
endure
.
Besides
,
personally
,
he
appeared
to
be
becoming
more
and
more
interesting
to
men
and
to
women
.
The
men
friends
he
had
made
he
retained
--
Addison
,
Bailey
,
Videra
,
McKibben
,
Rambaud
,
and
others
.
There
were
women
in
society
,
a
number
of
them
,
who
regretted
his
disappearance
if
not
that
of
Aileen
.
Occasionally
the
experiment
would
be
tried
of
inviting
him
without
his
wife
.
At
first
he
refused
invariably
;
later
he
went
alone
occasionally
to
a
dinner-party
without
her
knowledge
.
It
was
during
this
interregnum
that
Cowperwood
for
the
first
time
clearly
began
to
get
the
idea
that
there
was
a
marked
difference
between
him
and
Aileen
intellectually
and
spiritually
;
and
that
while
he
might
be
in
accord
withher
in
many
ways
--
emotionally
,
physically
,
idyllicly
--
there
were
,
nevertheless
,
many
things
which
he
could
do
alone
which
she
could
not
do
--
heights
to
which
he
could
rise
where
she
could
not
possibly
follow
.
Chicago
society
might
be
a
negligible
quantity
,
but
he
was
now
to
contrast
her
sharply
with
the
best
of
what
the
Old
World
had
to
offer
in
the
matter
of
femininity
,
for
following
their
social
expulsion
in
Chicago
and
his
financial
victory
,
he
once
more
decided
to
go
abroad
.
In
Rome
,
at
the
Japanese
and
Brazilian
embassies
(
where
,
because
of
his
wealth
,
he
gained
introduction
)
,
and
at
the
newly
established
Italian
Court
,
he
encountered
at
a
distance
charming
social
figures
of
considerable
significance
--
Italian
countesses
,
English
ladies
of
high
degree
,
talented
American
women
of
strong
artistic
and
social
proclivities
.
As
a
rule
they
were
quick
to
recognize
the
charm
of
his
manner
,
the
incisiveness
and
grip
of
his
mind
,
and
to
estimate
at
all
its
worth
the
high
individuality
of
his
soul
;
but
he
could
also
always
see
that
Aileen
was
not
so
acceptable
.
She
was
too
rich
in
her
entourage
,
too
showy
.
Her
glowing
health
and
beauty
was
a
species
of
affront
to
the
paler
,
more
sublimated
souls
of
many
who
were
not
in
themselves
unattractive
.
"
Is
n't
that
the
typical
American
for
you
,
"
he
heard
a
woman
remark
,
at
one
of
those
large
,
very
general
court
receptions
to
which
so
many
are
freely
admitted
,
and
to
which
Aileen
had
been
determined
to
go
.
He
was
standing
aside
talking
to
an
acquaintance
he
had
made
--
an
English-speaking
Greek
banker
stopping
at
the
Grand
Hotel
--
while
Aileen
promenaded
with
the
banker
's
wife
.
The
speaker
was
an
Englishwoman
.
"
So
gaudy
,
so
self-conscious
,
and
so
naive
!
"
