He commenced to have opinions, convictions--it was not fair to deprive tax-paying women of the privilege to vote; a university education should not be a prerequisite for admission to a dental college; the Catholic priests were to be restrained in their efforts to gain control of the public schools.
But most wonderful of all, McTeague began to have ambitions--very vague, very confused ideas of something better--ideas for the most part borrowed from Trina.

Some day, perhaps, he and his wife would have a house of their own.

What a dream! A little home all to themselves, with six rooms and a bath, with a grass plat in front and calla-lilies.
Then there would be children.

He would have a son, whose name would be Daniel, who would go to High School, and perhaps turn out to be a prosperous plumber or house painter.

Then this son Daniel would marry a wife, and they would all live together in that six-room-and-bath house; Daniel would have little children.