"I've given you all the clothes you wanted, haven't I?
I've taken you everywhere you wanted to go.

You've had as much as I've had, and more too." Carrie was not ungrateful, whatever else might be said of her.

In so far as her mind could construe, she acknowledged benefits received.

She hardly knew how to answer this, and yet her wrath was not placated.

She felt that the drummer had injured her irreparably.
"Did I ask you to ?" she returned.
"Well, I did it," said Drouet, "and you took it." "You talk as though I had persuaded you," answered Carrie.