Between attending to many financial matters Cowperwood saw to it that she was not left alone.

He asked her to shop in the local stores and tell him about them; and this she did, driving around in an open carriage, attractively arrayed, a great brown hat emphasizing her pink-and-white complexion and red-gold hair.

On different afternoons of their stay he took her to drive over the principal streets.

When Aileen was permitted for the first time to see the spacious beauty and richness of Prairie Avenue, the North Shore Drive, Michigan Avenue, and the new mansions on Ashland Boulevard, set in their grassy spaces, the spirit, aspirations, hope, tang of the future Chicago began to work in her blood as it had in Cowperwood's.
All of these rich homes were so very new.

The great people of Chicago were all newly rich like themselves.