As for Forbes Gurney, he just drifts up there once in a while as one of the crowd.

I scarcely know him." "Exactly," said Cowperwood, dolefully; "but you sketch him." For some reason Cowperwood did not believe this.

Back in his brain he did not believe Stephanie at all, he did not trust her.

Yet he was intensely fond of her--the more so, perhaps, because of this.
"Tell me truly, Stephanie," he said to her one day, urgently, and yet very diplomatically.

"I don't care at all, so far as your past is concerned.