How much influence the presence of that young woman in the same house had upon her it would be difficult to say.

But, because of all these things, when Hurstwood called he had found a young woman who was much more than the Carrie to whom Drouet had first spoken.

The primary defects of dress and manner had passed.

She was pretty, graceful, rich in the timidity born of uncertainty, and with a something childlike in her large eyes which captured the fancy of this starched and conventional poser among men.

It was the ancient attraction of the fresh for the stale.