I think the theatre a great thing." Just this little approval set Carrie's heart bounding.

Ah, if she could only be an actress--a good one! This man was wise--he knew--and he approved of it.

If she were a fine actress, such men as he would approve of her.

She felt that he was good to speak as he had, although it did not concern her at all.

She did not know why she felt this way.
At the close of the show it suddenly developed that he was not going back with them.
"Oh, aren't you ?" said Carrie, with an unwarrantable feeling.
"Oh, no," he said; "I'm stopping right around here in Thirty-third Street." Carrie could not say anything else, but somehow this development shocked her.