And there was nothing, as yet.

Yet there was something, too--her inmost convictions, and these she took good care to conceal.

The world--how little it should ever, ever know! How little it ever could know truly! The first time Cowperwood encountered this Circe daughter of so unfortunate a mother was on the occasion of a trip to New York, the second spring following his introduction to Mrs.Carter in Louisville.
Berenice was taking some part in the closing exercises of the Brewster School, and Mrs.Carter, with Cowperwood for an escort, decided to go East.

Cowperwood having located himself at the Netherlands, and Mrs.
Carter at the much humbler Grenoble, they journeyed together to visit this paragon whose picture he had had hanging in his rooms in Chicago for months past.

When they were introduced into the somewhat somber reception parlor of the Brewster School, Berenice came slipping in after a few moments, a noiseless figure of a girl, tall and slim, and deliciously sinuous.