It would pay the rent and would make the subject of expenditure a little less difficult to talk about with her husband.

But if Carrie was going to think of running around in the beginning there would be a hitch somewhere.

Unless Carrie submitted to a solemn round of industry and saw the need of hard work without longing for play, how was her coming to the city to profit them?
These thoughts were not those of a cold, hard nature at all.

They were the serious reflections of a mind which invariably adjusted itself, without much complaining, to such surroundings as its industry could make for it.
At last she yielded enough to ask Hanson.

It was a half-hearted procedure without a shade of desire on her part.
"Carrie wants us to go to the theatre," she said, looking in upon her husband.