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The
incidents
which
led
up
to
this
were
comparatively
trivial
--
nothing
more
,
indeed
,
at
first
than
the
sight
of
Miss
Nowak
and
Cowperwood
talking
intimately
in
his
office
one
afternoon
when
the
others
had
gone
and
the
fact
that
she
appeared
to
be
a
little
bit
disturbed
by
Aileen
's
arrival
.
Later
came
the
discovery
--
though
of
this
Aileen
could
not
be
absolutely
sure
--
of
Cowperwood
and
Antoinette
in
a
closed
carriage
one
stormy
November
afternoon
in
State
Street
when
he
was
supposed
to
be
out
of
the
city
.
She
was
coming
out
of
Merrill
's
store
at
the
time
,
and
just
happened
to
glance
at
the
passing
vehicle
,
which
was
running
near
the
curb
.
Aileen
,
although
uncertain
,
was
greatly
shocked
.
Could
it
be
possible
that
he
had
not
left
town
?
She
journeyed
to
his
office
on
the
pretext
of
taking
old
Laughlin
's
dog
,
Jennie
,
a
pretty
collar
she
had
found
;
actually
to
find
if
Antoinette
were
away
at
the
same
time
.
Could
it
be
possible
,
she
kept
asking
herself
,
that
Cowperwood
had
become
interested
in
his
own
stenographer
?
The
fact
that
the
office
assumed
that
he
was
out
of
town
and
that
Antoinette
was
not
there
gave
her
pause
.
Laughlin
quite
innocently
informed
her
that
he
thought
Miss
Nowak
had
gone
to
one
of
the
libraries
to
make
up
certain
reports
.
It
left
her
in
doubt
.
What
was
Aileen
to
think
?
Her
moods
and
aspirations
were
linked
so
closely
with
the
love
and
success
of
Cowperwood
that
she
could
not
,
in
spite
of
herself
,
but
take
fire
at
the
least
thought
of
losing
him
.
He
himself
wondered
sometimes
,
as
he
threaded
the
mesh-like
paths
of
sex
,
what
she
would
do
once
she
discovered
his
variant
conduct
.
Indeed
,
there
had
been
little
occasional
squabbles
,
not
sharp
,
but
suggestive
,
when
he
was
trifling
about
with
Mrs.
Kittridge
,
Mrs.
Ledwell
,
and
others
.
There
were
,
as
may
be
imagined
,
from
time
to
time
absences
,
brief
and
unimportant
,
which
he
explained
easily
,
passional
indifferences
which
were
not
explained
so
easily
,
and
the
like
;
but
since
his
affections
were
not
really
involved
in
any
of
those
instances
,
he
had
managed
to
smooth
the
matter
over
quite
nicely
.
"
Why
do
you
say
that
?
"
he
would
demand
,
when
she
suggested
,
apropos
of
a
trip
or
a
day
when
she
had
not
been
with
him
,
that
there
might
have
been
another
.
"
You
know
there
has
n't
.
If
I
am
going
in
for
that
sort
of
thing
you
'll
learn
it
fast
enough
.
Even
if
I
did
,
it
would
n't
mean
that
I
was
unfaithful
to
you
spiritually
.
"
"
Oh
,
would
n't
it
?
"
exclaimed
Aileen
,
resentfully
,
and
with
some
disturbance
of
spirit
.
"
Well
,
you
can
keep
your
spiritual
faithfulness
.
I
'm
not
going
to
be
content
with
any
sweet
thoughts
.
"
Cowperwood
laughed
even
as
she
laughed
,
for
he
knew
she
was
right
and
he
felt
sorry
for
her
.
At
the
same
time
her
biting
humor
pleased
him
.
He
knew
that
she
did
not
really
suspect
him
of
actual
infidelity
;
he
was
obviously
so
fond
of
her
.
But
she
also
knew
that
he
was
innately
attractive
to
women
,
and
that
there
were
enough
of
the
philandering
type
to
want
to
lead
him
astray
and
make
her
life
a
burden
.
Also
that
he
might
prove
a
very
willing
victim
.
Sex
desire
and
its
fruition
being
such
an
integral
factor
in
the
marriage
and
every
other
sex
relation
,
the
average
woman
is
prone
to
study
the
periodic
manifestations
that
go
with
it
quite
as
one
dependent
on
the
weather
--
a
sailor
,
or
example
--
might
study
the
barometer
.
In
this
Aileen
was
no
exception
.
She
was
so
beautiful
herself
,
and
had
been
so
much
to
Cowperwood
physically
,
that
she
had
followed
the
corresponding
evidences
of
feeling
in
him
with
the
utmost
interest
,
accepting
the
recurring
ebullitions
of
his
physical
emotions
as
an
evidence
of
her
own
enduring
charm
.
As
time
went
on
,
however
--
and
that
was
long
before
Mrs.
Sohlberg
or
any
one
else
had
appeared
--
the
original
flare
of
passion
had
undergone
a
form
of
subsidence
,
though
not
noticeable
enough
to
be
disturbing
.
Aileen
thought
and
thought
,
but
she
did
not
investigate
.
Indeed
,
because
of
the
precariousness
of
her
own
situation
as
a
social
failure
she
was
afraid
to
do
so
.
With
the
arrival
of
Mrs.
Sohlberg
and
then
of
Antoinette
Nowak
as
factors
in
the
potpourri
,
the
situation
became
more
difficult
.
Humanly
fond
of
Aileen
as
Cowperwood
was
,
and
because
of
his
lapses
and
her
affection
,
desirous
of
being
kind
,
yet
for
the
time
being
he
was
alienated
almost
completely
from
her
.
He
grew
remote
according
as
his
clandestine
affairs
were
drifting
or
blazing
,
without
,
however
,
losing
his
firm
grip
on
his
financial
affairs
,
and
Aileen
noticed
it
.
It
worried
her
.
She
was
so
vain
that
she
could
scarcely
believe
that
Cowperwood
could
long
be
indifferent
,
and
for
a
while
her
sentimental
interest
in
Sohlberg
's
future
and
unhappiness
of
soul
beclouded
her
judgment
;
but
she
finally
began
to
feel
the
drift
of
affairs
.
The
pathos
of
all
this
is
that
it
so
quickly
descends
into
the
realm
of
the
unsatisfactory
,
the
banal
,
the
pseudo
intimate
.
Aileen
noticed
it
at
once
.
She
tried
protestations
.
"
You
do
n't
kiss
me
the
way
you
did
once
,
"
and
then
a
little
later
,
"
You
have
n't
noticed
me
hardly
for
four
whole
days
.
What
's
the
matter
?
"
