Let's waltz a little to that music." He could not have introduced a more incongruous proposition.

It made clear to Carrie that he could not sympathise with her.

She could not have framed thoughts which would have expressed his defect or made clear the difference between them, but she felt it.

It was his first great mistake.
What Drouet said about the girl's grace, as she tripped out evenings accompanied by her mother, caused Carrie to perceive the nature and value of those little modish ways which women adopt when they would presume to be something.

She looked in the mirror and pursed up her lips, accompanying it with a little toss of the head, as she had seen the railroad treasurer's daughter do.