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"
Oh
,
I
do
n't
know
,
"
replied
Cowperwood
,
easily
;
"
I
guess
I
want
you
as
much
as
ever
.
I
do
n't
see
that
I
am
any
different
.
"
He
took
her
in
his
arms
and
petted
and
caressed
her
;
but
Aileen
was
suspicious
,
nervous
.
The
psychology
of
the
human
animal
,
when
confronted
by
these
tangles
,
these
ripping
tides
of
the
heart
,
has
little
to
do
with
so-called
reason
or
logic
.
It
is
amazing
how
in
the
face
of
passion
and
the
affections
and
the
changing
face
of
life
all
plans
and
theories
by
which
we
guide
ourselves
fall
to
the
ground
.
Here
was
Aileen
talking
bravely
at
the
time
she
invaded
Mrs.
Lillian
Cowperwood
's
domain
of
the
necessity
of
"
her
Frank
"
finding
a
woman
suitable
to
his
needs
,
tastes
,
abilities
,
but
now
that
the
possibility
of
another
woman
equally
or
possibly
better
suited
to
him
was
looming
in
the
offing
--
although
she
had
no
idea
who
it
might
be
--
she
could
not
reason
in
the
same
way
.
Her
ox
,
God
wot
,
was
the
one
that
was
being
gored
.
What
if
he
should
find
some
one
whom
he
could
want
more
than
he
did
her
?
Dear
heaven
,
how
terrible
that
would
be
!
What
would
she
do
?
she
asked
herself
,
thoughtfully
.
She
lapsed
into
the
blues
one
afternoon
--
almost
cried
--
she
could
scarcely
say
why
.
Another
time
she
thought
of
all
the
terrible
things
she
would
do
,
how
difficult
she
would
make
it
for
any
other
woman
who
invaded
her
preserves
.
However
,
she
was
not
sure
.
Would
she
declare
war
if
she
discovered
another
?
She
knew
she
would
eventually
;
and
yet
she
knew
,
too
,
that
if
she
did
,
and
Cowperwood
were
set
in
his
passion
,
thoroughly
alienated
,
it
would
do
no
good
.
It
would
be
terrible
,
but
what
could
she
do
to
win
him
back
?
That
was
the
issue
.
Once
warned
,
however
,
by
her
suspicious
questioning
,
Cowperwood
was
more
mechanically
attentive
than
ever
.
He
did
his
best
to
conceal
his
altered
mood
--
his
enthusiasms
for
Mrs.
Sohlberg
,
his
interest
in
Antoinette
Nowak
--
and
this
helped
somewhat
But
finally
there
was
a
detectable
change
.
Aileen
noticed
it
first
after
they
had
been
back
from
Europe
nearly
a
year
.
At
this
time
she
was
still
interested
in
Sohlberg
,
but
in
a
harmlessly
flirtatious
way
.
She
thought
he
might
be
interesting
physically
,
but
would
he
be
as
delightful
as
Cowperwood
?
Never
!
When
she
felt
that
Cowperwood
himself
might
he
changing
she
pulled
herself
up
at
once
,
and
when
Antoinette
appeared
--
the
carriage
incident
--
Sohlberg
lost
his
,
at
best
,
unstable
charm
.
She
began
to
meditate
on
what
a
terrible
thing
it
would
be
to
lose
Cowperwood
,
seeing
that
she
had
failed
to
establish
herself
socially
.
Perhaps
that
had
something
to
do
with
his
defection
.
No
doubt
it
had
.
Yet
she
could
not
believe
,
after
all
his
protestations
of
affection
in
Philadelphia
,
after
all
her
devotion
to
him
in
those
dark
days
of
his
degradation
and
punishment
,
that
he
would
really
turn
on
her
.
No
,
he
might
stray
momentarily
,
but
if
she
protested
enough
,
made
a
scene
,
perhaps
,
he
would
not
feel
so
free
to
injure
her
--
he
would
remember
and
be
loving
and
devoted
again
.
After
seeing
him
,
or
imagining
she
had
seen
him
,
in
the
carriage
,
she
thought
at
first
that
she
would
question
him
,
but
later
decided
that
she
would
wait
and
watch
more
closely
.
Perhaps
he
was
beginning
to
run
around
with
other
women
.
There
was
safety
in
numbers
--
that
she
knew
.
Her
heart
,
her
pride
,
was
hurt
,
but
not
broken
.
The
peculiar
personality
of
Rita
Sohlberg
was
such
that
by
her
very
action
she
ordinarily
allayed
suspicion
,
or
rather
distracted
it
.
Although
a
novice
,
she
had
a
strange
ease
,
courage
,
or
balance
of
soul
which
kept
her
whole
and
self-possessed
under
the
most
trying
of
circumstances
.
She
might
have
been
overtaken
in
the
most
compromising
of
positions
,
but
her
manner
would
always
have
indicated
ease
,
a
sense
of
innocence
,
nothing
unusual
,
for
she
had
no
sense
of
moral
degradation
in
this
matter
--
no
troublesome
emotion
as
to
what
was
to
flow
from
a
relationship
of
this
kind
,
no
worry
as
to
her
own
soul
,
sin
,
social
opinion
,
or
the
like
.
She
was
really
interested
in
art
and
life
--
a
pagan
,
in
fact
.
Some
people
are
thus
hardily
equipped
.
It
is
the
most
notable
attribute
of
the
hardier
type
of
personalities
--
not
necessarily
the
most
brilliant
or
successful
.
You
might
have
said
that
her
soul
was
naively
unconscious
of
the
agony
of
others
in
loss
.
She
would
have
taken
any
loss
to
herself
with
an
amazing
equableness
--
some
qualms
,
of
course
,
but
not
many
--
because
her
vanity
and
sense
of
charm
would
have
made
her
look
forward
to
something
better
or
as
good
.
She
had
called
on
Aileen
quite
regularly
in
the
past
,
with
or
without
Harold
,
and
had
frequently
driven
with
the
Cowperwoods
or
joined
them
at
the
theater
or
elsewhere
.
She
had
decided
,
after
becoming
intimate
with
Cowperwood
,
to
study
art
again
,
which
was
a
charming
blind
,
for
it
called
for
attendance
at
afternoon
or
evening
classes
which
she
frequently
skipped
.
Besides
,
since
Harold
had
more
money
he
was
becoming
gayer
,
more
reckless
and
enthusiastic
over
women
,
and
Cowperwood
deliberately
advised
her
to
encourage
him
in
some
liaison
which
,
in
case
exposure
should
subsequently
come
to
them
,
would
effectually
tie
his
hands
.
"
Let
him
get
in
some
affair
,
"
Cowperwood
told
Rita
.
"
We
'll
put
detectives
on
his
trail
and
get
evidence
.
He
wo
n't
have
a
word
to
say
.
"
"
We
do
n't
really
need
to
do
that
,
"
she
protested
sweetly
,
naively
.
"
He
's
been
in
enough
scrapes
as
it
is
.
He
's
given
me
some
of
the
letters
--
"
(
she
pronounced
it
"
lettahs
"
)
--
"
written
him
.
"
"
But
we
'll
need
actual
witnesses
if
we
ever
need
anything
at
all
.
Just
tell
me
when
he
's
in
love
again
,
and
I
'll
do
the
rest
.
"
