The conservative commented on the flow of wine, the intensely nude Gerome at one end of the gallery, and the sparkling portrait of Aileen at the other, the enthusiasm of some of the young men for her company.

Mrs.
Rambaud, pleasant and kindly, remarked to her husband that Aileen was "very eager for life," she thought.

Mrs.Addison, astonished at the material flare of the Cowperwoods, quite transcending in glitter if not in size and solidity anything she and Addison had ever achieved, remarked to her husband that "he must be making money very fast." "The man's a born financier, Ella," Addison explained, sententiously.
"He's a manipulator, and he's sure to make money.

Whether they can get into society I don't know.

He could if he were alone, that's sure.
She's beautiful, but he needs another kind of woman, I'm afraid.