CHAPTER X.
The home atmosphere which they established when they returned from their honeymoon was a great improvement in taste over that which had characterized the earlier life of Mrs.Cowperwood as Mrs.Semple.

They had decided to occupy her house, on North Front Street, for a while at least.

Cowperwood, aggressive in his current artistic mood, had objected at once after they were engaged to the spirit of the furniture and decorations, or lack of them, and had suggested that he be allowed to have it brought more in keeping with his idea of what was appropriate.
During the years in which he had been growing into manhood he had come instinctively into sound notions of what was artistic and refined.

He had seen so many homes that were more distinguished and harmonious than his own.

One could not walk or drive about Philadelphia without seeing and being impressed with the general tendency toward a more cultivated and selective social life.