We might get one down there." "I'll look at them if you say so," said Carrie.
"I think I could break away from this fellow inside of a year," said Hurstwood.

"Nothing will ever come of this arrangement as it's going on now." "I'll look around," said Carrie, observing that the proposed change seemed to be a serious thing with him.
The upshot of this was that the change was eventually effected; not without great gloom on the part of Carrie.

It really affected her more seriously than anything that had yet happened.

She began to look upon Hurstwood wholly as a man, and not as a lover or husband.

She felt thoroughly bound to him as a wife, and that her lot was cast with his, whatever it might be; but she began to see that he was gloomy and taciturn, not a young, strong, and buoyant man.