The only thing I can see, if I want to improve, is to get hold of a place of my own." "Why don't you ?" said Carrie.
"Well, all I have is tied up in there just now.

If I had a chance to save a while I think I could open a place that would give us plenty of money." "Can't we save ?" said Carrie.
"We might try it," he suggested.

"I've been thinking that if we'd take a smaller flat down town and live economically for a year, I would have enough, with what I have invested, to open a good place.

Then we could arrange to live as you want to." "It would suit me all right," said Carrie, who, nevertheless, felt badly to think it had come to this.

Talk of a smaller flat sounded like poverty.
"There are lots of nice little flats down around Sixth Avenue, below Fourteenth Street.