To obtain his consent to the purchase, she felt to be hopeless.
"I must get them in this way, or not at all.

So much is clear." Thus she communed with herself.

"He's able enough to pay the bill; if I had any doubts of that, the matter would be settled; but I have none." With the prospect of getting the long coveted carpets, came an increased desire for their possession.
In imagination Mrs.Ellis saw them already on the floor.

For some hours there was a struggle in her mind.

Then the tempter triumphed.