She did not take into account how much liberty she was securing.

Only the latest step, the newest freedom, must not be questioned.
Hurstwood saw it all clearly enough.

He was shrewd after his kind, and yet there was enough decency in the man to stop him from making any effectual protest.

In his almost inexplicable apathy he was content to droop supinely while Carrie drifted out of his life, just as he was willing supinely to see opportunity pass beyond his control.

He could not help clinging and protesting in a mild, irritating, and ineffectual way, however--a way that simply widened the breach by slow degrees.
A further enlargement of this chasm between them came when the manager, looking between the wings upon the brightly lighted stage where the chorus was going through some of its glittering evolutions, said to the master of the ballet: "Who is that fourth girl there on the right--the one coming round at the end now ?" "Oh," said the ballet-master, "that's Miss Madenda." "She's good looking.