It persuades them that they are in love.
Once at home, she changed her clothes and straightened the rooms for herself.

In the matter of the arrangement of the furniture she never took the housemaid's opinion.

That young woman invariably put one of the rocking-chairs in the corner, and Carrie as regularly moved it out.
To-day she hardly noticed that it was in the wrong place, so absorbed was she in her own thoughts.

She worked about the room until Drouet put in appearance at five o'clock.

The drummer was flushed and excited and full of determination to know all about her relations with Hurstwood.
Nevertheless, after going over the subject in his mind the livelong day, he was rather weary of it and wished it over with.