Mrs.Sohlberg, he reflected shrewdly, had a kind of fool for a husband.

Would she take an interest in him, Frank Cowperwood?
Would a woman like this surrender on any basis outside of divorce and marriage?
He wondered.

On her part, Mrs.
Sohlberg was thinking what a forceful man Cowperwood was, and how close he had stayed by her.

She felt his interest, for she had often seen these symptoms in other men and knew what they meant.

She knew the pull of her own beauty, and, while she heightened it as artfully as she dared, yet she kept aloof, too, feeling that she had never met any one as yet for whom it was worth while to be different.