It was wonderful to have so fine, so powerful a man care for her.

She conceived of him as a very great artist in his realm rather than as a business man, and he grasped this fact after a very little while and appreciated it.

To his delight, she was even more beautiful physically than he had anticipated--a smoldering, passionate girl who met him with a fire which, though somber, quite rivaled his own.

She was different, too, in her languorous acceptance of all that he bestowed from any one he had ever known.

She was as tactful as Rita Sohlberg--more so--but so preternaturally silent at times.
"Stephanie," he would exclaim, "do talk.