He looked on her, his bright, healthy, enticingly beautiful daughter, and wondered what was going to become of her.

Some rich man was going to many her--some fine, rich young man with good business instincts--and he, her father, would leave her a lot of money.
There was a reception and a dance to be given to celebrate the opening of the two Cowperwood homes--the reception to be held in Frank Cowperwood's residence, and the dance later at his father's.

The Henry Cowperwood domicile was much more pretentious, the reception-room, parlor, music-room, and conservatory being in this case all on the ground floor and much larger.

Ellsworth had arranged it so that those rooms, on occasion, could be thrown into one, leaving excellent space for promenade, auditorium, dancing--anything, in fact, that a large company might require.

It had been the intention all along of the two men to use these houses jointly.