He had treated her badly, but he could not afford to make up.

Now desperation seized him, and for a day or two, going out thus, he lived like a gentleman--or what he conceived to be a gentleman--which took money.

For his escapades he was soon poorer in mind and body, to say nothing of his purse, which had lost thirty by the process.

Then he came down to cold, bitter sense again.
"The rent man comes to-day," said Carrie, greeting him thus indifferently three mornings later.
"He does ?" "Yes; this is the second," answered Carrie.
Hurstwood frowned.

Then in despair he got out his purse.
"It seems an awful lot to pay for rent," he said.
He was nearing his last hundred dollars..