It did not matter whether she was the star or not.

If she were only once in, getting a decent salary, wearing the kind of clothes she liked, having the money to do with, going here and there as she pleased, how delightful it would all be.

Her mind ran over this picture all the day long.

Hurstwood's dreary state made its beauty become more and more vivid.
Curiously this idea soon took hold of Hurstwood.

His vanishing sum suggested that he would need sustenance.