A Test The opening of the house in Michigan Avenue occurred late in November in the fall of eighteen seventy-eight.

When Aileen and Cowperwood had been in Chicago about two years.

Altogether, between people whom they had met at the races, at various dinners and teas, and at receptions of the Union and Calumet Clubs (to which Cowperwood, through Addison's backing, had been admitted) and those whom McKibben and Lord influenced, they were able to send invitations to about three hundred, of whom some two hundred and fifty responded.

Up to this time, owing to Cowperwood's quiet manipulation of his affairs, there had been no comment on his past--no particular interest in it.

He had money, affable ways, a magnetic personality.