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第4章 曾经的对伙，现在的自己

　　"Anyhow," said Carrie, "I shouldn't want to get married as longas he is here. I wouldn't want to run away."

　　But the officer turned a deaf ear.

　　"I'd like to know what you did, then, in Montreal?" she answered.

　　Under better material conditions, this kind of work would nothave been so bad, but the new socialism which involves pleasantworking conditions for employees had not then taken hold uponmanufacturing companies.

am and it had not come true. She wonderedat her own solitude these two years past--her indifference to thefact that she had never achieved what she had expected.

　　Carrie had no warning of this halcyon intention. She practisedher part ruefully, feeling that she was effectually shelved. Atthe dress rehearsal she was disconsolate.

　　Now the crier called the train ready and they got on. Hurstwoodbreathed a sigh of relief as it started. There was a short runto the river, and there they were ferried over. They had barelypulled the train off the ferry-boat when he settled back with asigh.

　　"'Under the Gaslight.'"

　　"I'm out," was her reply to the boy.