Carrie's love represented only so much added pleasure.

He would enjoy this new gift over and above his ordinary allowance of pleasure.

He would be happy with her and his own affairs would go on as they had, undisturbed.
On Sunday evening Carrie dined with him at a place he had selected in East Adams Street, and thereafter they took a cab to what was then a pleasant evening resort out on Cottage Grove Avenue near 39th Street.

In the process of his declaration he soon realized that Carrie took his love upon a higher basis than he had anticipated.

She kept him at a distance in a rather earnest way, and submitted only to those tender tokens of affection which better become the inexperienced lover.
Hurstwood saw that she was not to be possessed for the asking, and deferred pressing his suit too warmly.
Since he feigned to believe in her married state he found that he had to carry out the part.