Men who knew how these things were done, and who were consulting their own convenience far more than her welfare, suggested the advisability of it.

Three or four friends like Colonel Gillis wished rooms--convenient place in which to loaf, gamble, and bring their women.

Hattie Starr was her name now, and as such she had even become known in a vague way to the police--but only vaguely--as a woman whose home was suspiciously gay on occasions.
Cowperwood, with his appetite for the wonders of life, his appreciation of the dramas which produce either failure or success, could not help being interested in this spoiled woman who was sailing so vaguely the seas of chance.

Colonel Gillis once said that with some strong man to back her, Nannie Fleming could be put back into society.

She had a pleasant appeal--she and her two children, of whom she never spoke.
After a few visits to her home Cowperwood spent hours talking with Mrs.
Carter whenever he was in Louisville.