He has two daughters, too.

We'll have to have them over here." "I'll have them to dinner sometime," she agreed cheerfully and helpfully, "and I'll stop and take Mrs.Butler driving if she'll go, or she can take me." She had already learned that the Butlers were rather showy--the younger generation--that they were sensitive as to their lineage, and that money in their estimation was supposed to make up for any deficiency in any other respect.

"Butler himself is a very presentable man," Cowperwood had once remarked to her, "but Mrs.Butler--well, she's all right, but she's a little commonplace.

She's a fine woman, though, I think, good-natured and good-hearted." He cautioned her not to overlook Aileen and Norah, because the Butlers, mother and father, were very proud of them.
Mrs.Cowperwood at this time was thirty-two years old; Cowperwood twenty-seven.

The birth and care of two children had made some difference in her looks.