She had done wrong, possibly, in taking him away from Mrs.Cowperwood number one, though she could scarcely believe that, for Mrs.Lillian Cowperwood was so unsuited to him--but this repayment! If she had been at all superstitious or religious, and had known her Bible, which she didn't, she might have quoted to herself that very fatalistic statement of the New Testament, "With what measure ye mete it shall be measured unto you again." The truth was that Cowperwood's continued propensity to rove at liberty among the fair sex could not in the long run fail of some results of an unsatisfactory character.

Coincident with the disappearance of Stephanie Platow, he launched upon a variety of episodes, the charming daughter of so worthy a man as Editor Haguenin, his sincerest and most sympathetic journalistic supporter; and the daughter of Aymar Cochrane, falling victims, among others, to what many would have called his wiles.

As a matter of fact, in most cases he was as much sinned against as sinning, since the provocation was as much offered as given.
The manner in which he came to get in with Cecily Haguenin was simple enough.

Being an old friend of the family, and a frequent visitor at her father's house, he found this particular daughter of desire an easy victim.

She was a vigorous blonde creature of twenty at this time, very full and plump, with large, violet eyes, and with considerable alertness of mind--a sort of doll girl with whom Cowperwood found it pleasant to amuse himself.