He went over, tactfully, a score of additional points.
Finally, on the twenty-first visit, and with seemingly great distress, he told her that her husband had decided to break with her financially, to pay no more bills, and do nothing until his responsibility had been fixed by the courts, and that he, Steger, was about to retire from the case.

Mrs.Cowperwood felt that she must yield; she named her ultimatum.

If he would fix two hundred thousand dollars on her and the children (this was Cowperwood's own suggestion) and later on do something commercially for their only son, Frank, junior, she would let him go.

She disliked to do it.

She knew that it meant the triumph of Aileen Butler, such as it was.