Would you care to come and dine with me?
We can talk it over there." "Oh, no," said Carrie, the whole motive of the man flashing on her at once.

"I have an engagement myself." "That's too bad," he said, realizing that he had been a little beforehand in his offer and that Carrie was about to go away.

"Come in later.

I may know of something." "Thank you," she answered, with some trepidation and went out.
"She was good-looking, wasn't she ?" said the manager's companion, who had not caught all the details of the game he had played.
"Yes, in a way," said the other, sore to think the game had been lost.
"She'd never make an actress, though.

Just another chorus girl--that's all." This little experience nearly destroyed her ambition to call upon the manager at the Chicago Opera House, but she decided to do so after a time.