Her one redeeming feature was that she was truly beautiful herself--a radiant, vibrating objet d'art.

A man like Rambaud, remote, conservative, constructive, saw the place of a woman like Aileen in the life of a man like Cowperwood on the instant.

She was such a woman as he would have prized himself in a certain capacity.
Sex interest in all strong men usually endures unto the end, governed sometimes by a stoic resignation.

The experiment of such attraction can, as they well know, be made over and over, but to what end?
For many it becomes too troublesome.

Yet the presence of so glittering a spectacle as Aileen on this night touched Mr.Rambaud with an ancient ambition.