Now you go ahead and see." On the stage, Mrs.Van Dam was making her cruel insinuation against Laura.
Carrie listened, and caught the infection of something--she did not know what.

Her nostrils sniffed thinly.
"It means," the professional actor began, speaking as Ray, "that society is a terrible avenger of insult.

Have you ever heard of the Siberian wolves?
When one of the pack falls through weakness, the others devour him.

It is not an elegant comparison, but there is something wolfish in society.

Laura has mocked it with a pretence, and society, which is made up of pretence, will bitterly resent the mockery." At the sound of her stage name Carrie started.