She was a woman not unlike Aileen in type, a little older, not so good-looking, and of a harder, more subtle commercial type of mind.

She rather interested Cowperwood because she was so trig, self-sufficient, and careful.

She did her best to lure him on to a liaison with her, which finally resulted, her apartment on the North Side being the center of this relationship.

It lasted perhaps six weeks.

Through it all he was quite satisfied that he did not like her so very well.