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Cowperwood
turned
to
look
.
It
was
Aileen
,
and
the
lady
speaking
was
undoubtedly
well
bred
,
thoughtful
,
good-looking
.
He
had
to
admit
that
much
that
she
said
was
true
,
but
how
were
you
to
gage
a
woman
like
Aileen
,
anyhow
?
She
was
not
reprehensible
in
any
way
--
just
a
full-blooded
animal
glowing
with
a
love
of
life
.
She
was
attractive
to
him
.
It
was
too
bad
that
people
of
obviously
more
conservative
tendencies
were
so
opposed
to
her
.
Why
could
they
not
see
what
he
saw
--
a
kind
of
childish
enthusiasm
for
luxury
and
show
which
sprang
,
perhaps
,
from
the
fact
that
in
her
youth
she
had
not
enjoyed
the
social
opportunities
which
she
needed
and
longed
for
.
He
felt
sorry
for
her
.
At
the
same
time
he
was
inclined
to
feel
that
perhaps
now
another
type
of
woman
would
be
better
for
him
socially
.
If
he
had
a
harder
type
,
one
with
keener
artistic
perceptions
and
a
penchant
for
just
the
right
social
touch
or
note
,
how
much
better
he
would
do
!
He
came
home
bringing
a
Perugino
,
brilliant
examples
of
Luini
,
Previtali
,
and
Pinturrichio
(
this
last
a
portrait
of
Caesar
Borgia
)
,
which
he
picked
up
in
Italy
,
to
say
nothing
of
two
red
African
vases
of
great
size
that
he
found
in
Cairo
,
a
tall
gilt
Louis
Fifteenth
standard
of
carved
wood
that
he
discovered
in
Rome
,
two
ornate
candelabra
from
Venice
for
his
walls
,
and
a
pair
of
Italian
torcheras
from
Naples
to
decorate
the
corners
of
his
library
.
It
was
thus
by
degrees
that
his
art
collection
was
growing
.
At
the
same
time
it
should
be
said
,
in
the
matter
of
women
and
the
sex
question
,
his
judgment
and
views
had
begun
to
change
tremendously
.
When
he
had
first
met
Aileen
he
had
many
keen
intuitions
regarding
life
and
sex
,
and
above
all
clear
faith
that
he
had
a
right
to
do
as
he
pleased
.
Since
he
had
been
out
of
prison
and
once
more
on
his
upward
way
there
had
been
many
a
stray
glance
cast
in
his
direction
;
he
had
so
often
had
it
clearly
forced
upon
him
that
he
was
fascinating
to
women
.
Although
he
had
only
so
recently
acquired
Aileen
legally
,
yet
she
was
years
old
to
him
as
a
mistress
,
and
the
first
engrossing
--
it
had
been
almost
all-engrossing
--
enthusiasm
was
over
.
He
loved
her
not
only
for
her
beauty
,
but
for
her
faithful
enthusiasm
;
but
the
power
of
others
to
provoke
in
him
a
momentary
interest
,
and
passion
even
,
was
something
which
he
did
not
pretend
to
understand
,
explain
,
or
moralize
about
.
So
it
was
and
so
he
was
.
He
did
not
want
to
hurt
Aileen
's
feelings
by
letting
her
know
that
his
impulses
thus
wantonly
strayed
to
others
,
but
so
it
was
.
Not
long
after
he
had
returned
from
the
European
trip
he
stopped
one
afternoon
in
the
one
exclusive
drygoods
store
in
State
Street
to
purchase
a
tie
.
As
he
was
entering
a
woman
crossed
the
aisle
before
him
,
from
one
counter
to
another
--
a
type
of
woman
which
he
was
coming
to
admire
,
but
only
from
a
rather
distant
point
of
view
,
seeing
them
going
here
and
there
in
the
world
.
She
was
a
dashing
type
,
essentially
smart
and
trig
,
with
a
neat
figure
,
dark
hair
and
eyes
,
an
olive
skin
,
small
mouth
,
quaint
nose
--
all
in
all
quite
a
figure
for
Chicago
at
the
time
.
She
had
,
furthermore
,
a
curious
look
of
current
wisdom
in
her
eyes
,
an
air
of
saucy
insolence
which
aroused
Cowperwood
's
sense
of
mastery
,
his
desire
to
dominate
.
To
the
look
of
provocation
and
defiance
which
she
flung
him
for
the
fraction
of
a
second
he
returned
a
curiously
leonine
glare
which
went
over
her
like
a
dash
of
cold
water
.
It
was
not
a
hard
look
,
however
,
merely
urgent
and
full
of
meaning
.
She
was
the
vagrom-minded
wife
of
a
prosperous
lawyer
who
was
absorbed
in
his
business
and
in
himself
.
She
pretended
indifference
for
a
moment
after
the
first
glance
,
but
paused
a
little
way
off
as
if
to
examine
some
laces
.
Cowperwood
looked
after
her
to
catch
a
second
fleeting
,
attracted
look
.
He
was
on
his
way
to
several
engagements
which
he
did
not
wish
to
break
,
but
he
took
out
a
note-book
,
wrote
on
a
slip
of
paper
the
name
of
a
hotel
,
and
underneath
:
"
Parlor
,
second
floor
,
Tuesday
,
1
P.M.
"
Passing
by
where
she
stood
,
he
put
it
into
her
gloved
hand
,
which
was
hanging
by
her
side
.
The
fingers
closed
over
it
automatically
.
She
had
noted
his
action
.
On
the
day
and
hour
suggested
she
was
there
,
although
he
had
given
no
name
.
That
liaison
,
while
delightful
to
him
,
was
of
no
great
duration
.
The
lady
was
interesting
,
but
too
fanciful
.
Similarly
,
at
the
Henry
Huddlestones
'
,
one
of
their
neighbors
at
the
first
Michigan
Avenue
house
they
occupied
,
he
encountered
one
evening
at
a
small
dinner-party
a
girl
of
twenty-three
who
interested
him
greatly
--
for
the
moment
.
Her
name
was
not
very
attractive
--
Ella
F.
Hubby
,
as
he
eventually
learned
--
but
she
was
not
unpleasing
.
Her
principal
charm
was
a
laughing
,
hoydenish
countenance
and
roguish
eyes
.
She
was
the
daughter
of
a
well-to-do
commission
merchant
in
South
Water
Street
.
That
her
interest
should
have
been
aroused
by
that
of
Cowperwood
in
her
was
natural
enough
.
She
was
young
,
foolish
,
impressionable
,
easily
struck
by
the
glitter
of
a
reputation
,
and
Mrs.
Huddlestone
had
spoken
highly
of
Cowperwood
and
his
wife
and
the
great
things
he
was
doing
or
was
going
to
do
.
When
Ella
saw
him
,
and
saw
that
he
was
still
young-looking
,
with
the
love
of
beauty
in
his
eyes
and
a
force
of
presence
which
was
not
at
all
hard
where
she
was
concerned
,
she
was
charmed
;
and
when
Aileen
was
not
looking
her
glance
kept
constantly
wandering
to
his
with
a
laughing
signification
of
friendship
and
admiration
.
It
was
the
most
natural
thing
in
the
world
for
him
to
say
to
her
,
when
they
had
adjourned
to
the
drawing-room
,
that
if
she
were
in
the
neighborhood
of
his
office
some
day
she
might
care
to
look
in
on
him
.
The
look
he
gave
her
was
one
of
keen
understanding
,
and
brought
a
look
of
its
own
kind
,
warm
and
flushing
,
in
return
.
She
came
,
and
there
began
a
rather
short
liaison
.
It
was
interesting
but
not
brilliant
.
The
girl
did
not
have
sufficient
temperament
to
bind
him
beyond
a
period
of
rather
idle
investigation
.
There
was
still
,
for
a
little
while
,
another
woman
,
whom
he
had
known
--
a
Mrs.
Josephine
Ledwell
,
a
smart
widow
,
who
came
primarily
to
gamble
on
the
Board
of
Trade
,
but
who
began
to
see
at
once
,
on
introduction
,
the
charm
of
a
flirtation
with
Cowperwood
.
She
was
a
woman
not
unlike
Aileen
in
type
,
a
little
older
,
not
so
good-looking
,
and
of
a
harder
,
more
subtle
commercial
type
of
mind
.
She
rather
interested
Cowperwood
because
she
was
so
trig
,
self-sufficient
,
and
careful
.
She
did
her
best
to
lure
him
on
to
a
liaison
with
her
,
which
finally
resulted
,
her
apartment
on
the
North
Side
being
the
center
of
this
relationship
.
It
lasted
perhaps
six
weeks
.
Through
it
all
he
was
quite
satisfied
that
he
did
not
like
her
so
very
well
.
Any
one
who
associated
with
him
had
Aileen
's
present
attractiveness
to
contend
with
,
as
well
as
the
original
charm
of
his
first
wife
.
It
was
no
easy
matter
.
