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"
You
know
I
think
,
"
she
drawled
,
amusingly
,
"
that
he
is
now
.
I
saw
him
on
the
street
the
other
day
with
one
of
his
students
--
rather
a
pretty
girl
,
too
.
"
Cowperwood
was
pleased
.
Under
the
circumstances
he
would
almost
have
been
willing
--
not
quite
--
for
Aileen
to
succumb
to
Sohlberg
in
order
to
entrap
her
and
make
his
situation
secure
.
Yet
he
really
did
not
wish
it
in
the
last
analysis
--
would
have
been
grieved
temporarily
if
she
had
deserted
him
.
However
,
in
the
case
of
Sohlberg
,
detectives
were
employed
,
the
new
affair
with
the
flighty
pupil
was
unearthed
and
sworn
to
by
witnesses
,
and
this
,
combined
with
the
"
lettahs
"
held
by
Rita
,
constituted
ample
material
wherewith
to
"
hush
up
"
the
musician
if
ever
he
became
unduly
obstreperous
.
So
Cowperwood
and
Rita
's
state
was
quite
comfortable
.
But
Aileen
,
meditating
over
Antoinette
Nowak
,
was
beside
herself
with
curiosity
,
doubt
,
worry
.
She
did
not
want
to
injure
Cowperwood
in
any
way
after
his
bitter
Philadelphia
experience
,
and
yet
when
she
thought
of
his
deserting
her
in
this
way
she
fell
into
a
great
rage
.
Her
vanity
,
as
much
as
her
love
,
was
hurt
.
What
could
she
do
to
justify
or
set
at
rest
her
suspicions
?
Watch
him
personally
?
She
was
too
dignified
and
vain
to
lurk
about
street-corners
or
offices
or
hotels
.
Never
!
Start
a
quarrel
without
additional
evidence
--
that
would
be
silly
.
He
was
too
shrewd
to
give
her
further
evidence
once
she
spoke
.
He
would
merely
deny
it
.
She
brooded
irritably
,
recalling
after
a
time
,
and
with
an
aching
heart
,
that
her
father
had
put
detectives
on
her
track
once
ten
years
before
,
and
had
actually
discovered
her
relations
with
Cowperwood
and
their
rendezvous
.
Bitter
as
that
memory
was
--
torturing
--
yet
now
the
same
means
seemed
not
too
abhorrent
to
employ
under
the
circumstances
.
No
harm
had
come
to
Cowperwood
in
the
former
instance
,
she
reasoned
to
herself
--
no
especial
harm
--
from
that
discovery
(
this
was
not
true
)
,
and
none
would
come
to
him
now
.
(
This
also
was
not
true
.
)
But
one
must
forgive
a
fiery
,
passionate
soul
,
wounded
to
the
quick
,
some
errors
of
judgment
.
Her
thought
was
that
she
would
first
be
sure
just
what
it
was
her
beloved
was
doing
,
and
then
decide
what
course
to
take
.
But
she
knew
that
she
was
treading
on
dangerous
ground
,
and
mentally
she
recoiled
from
the
consequences
which
might
follow
.
He
might
leave
her
if
she
fought
him
too
bitterly
.
He
might
treat
her
as
he
had
treated
his
first
wife
,
Lillian
.
She
studied
her
liege
lord
curiously
these
days
,
wondering
if
it
were
true
that
he
had
deserted
her
already
,
as
he
had
deserted
his
first
wife
thirteen
years
before
,
wondering
if
he
could
really
take
up
with
a
girl
as
common
as
Antoinette
Nowak
--
wondering
,
wondering
,
wondering
--
half
afraid
and
yet
courageous
.
What
could
be
done
with
him
?
If
only
he
still
loved
her
all
would
be
well
yet
--
but
oh
!
The
detective
agency
to
which
she
finally
applied
,
after
weeks
of
soul-racking
suspense
,
was
one
of
those
disturbingly
human
implements
which
many
are
not
opposed
to
using
on
occasion
,
when
it
is
the
only
means
of
solving
a
troublous
problem
of
wounded
feelings
or
jeopardized
interests
.
Aileen
,
being
obviously
rich
,
was
forthwith
shamefully
overcharged
;
but
the
services
agreed
upon
were
well
performed
.
To
her
amazement
,
chagrin
,
and
distress
,
after
a
few
weeks
of
observation
Cowperwood
was
reported
to
have
affairs
not
only
with
Antoinette
Nowak
,
whom
she
did
suspect
,
but
also
with
Mrs.
Sohlberg
.
And
these
two
affairs
at
one
and
the
same
time
.
For
the
moment
it
left
Aileen
actually
stunned
and
breathless
.
The
significance
of
Rita
Sohlberg
to
her
in
this
hour
was
greater
than
that
of
any
woman
before
or
after
.
Of
all
living
things
,
women
dread
women
most
of
all
,
and
of
all
women
the
clever
and
beautiful
.
Rita
Sohlberg
had
been
growing
on
Aileen
as
a
personage
,
for
she
had
obviously
been
prospering
during
this
past
year
,
and
her
beauty
had
been
amazingly
enhanced
thereby
.
Once
Aileen
had
encountered
Rita
in
a
light
trap
on
the
Avenue
,
very
handsome
and
very
new
,
and
she
had
commented
on
it
to
Cowperwood
,
whose
reply
had
been
:
"
Her
father
must
be
making
some
money
.
Sohlberg
could
never
earn
it
for
her
.
"
Aileen
sympathized
with
Harold
because
of
his
temperament
,
but
she
knew
that
what
Cowperwood
said
was
true
.
