He wanted to weigh the effects of it, and yet he could not see.

He went beating on, flushed by her presence, clearly awakened, intensely enlisted in his plan.
"Won't you come ?" he said, beginning over and with a more reverent feeling.

"You know I can't do without you--you know it-it can't go on this way--can it ?" "I know," said Carrie.
"I wouldn't ask if I--I wouldn't argue with you if I could help it.

Look at me, Carrie.

Put yourself in my place.