They were people of a sort very common in America to-day, who live respectably from hand to mouth.

Her wife, quite attractive affected the feeling of youth, and objected to that sort of home life which means the care of a house and the raising of a family.
Like Drouet and Carrie, they also occupied three rooms on the floor above.

Not long after she arrived Mrs.Hale established social relations with her, and together they went about.

For a long time this was her only companionship, and the gossip of the manager's wife formed the medium, through which she saw the world.

Such trivialities, such praises of Wealth, such conventional expression of morals as sifted through this passive creature's mind, fell upon Carrie and for the while confused her.
On the other hand, her own feelings were a corrective influence.