Already, in spite of her original daring in regard to the opinion of society and the rights of the former Mrs.
Cowperwood, she was sensitive on the score of her future and what her past might mean to her.

Really her original actions could be attributed to her youthful passion and the powerful sex magnetism of Cowperwood.

Under more fortunate circumstances she would have married safely enough and without the scandal which followed.

As it was now, her social future here needed to end satisfactorily in order to justify herself to herself, and, she thought, to him.
"You may put the sandwiches in the ice-box," she said to Louis, the butler, after one of the earliest of the "at home" failures, referring to the undue supply of pink-and-blue-ribboned titbits which, uneaten, honored some fine Sevres with their presence.

"Send the flowers to the hospital.