When Carrie had returned home, flushed with her first success and ready, for all her weariness, to discuss the now interesting events which led up to her achievement, the former had merely smiled approvingly and inquired whether she would have to spend any of it for car fare.

This consideration had not entered in before, and it did not now for long affect the glow of Carrie's enthusiasm.
Disposed as she then was to calculate upon that vague basis which allows the subtraction of one sum from another without any perceptible diminution, she was happy.
When Hanson came home at seven o'clock, he was inclined to be a little crusty--his usual demeanour before supper.

This never showed so much in anything he said as in a certain solemnity of countenance and the silent manner in which he slopped about.

He had a pair of yellow carpet slippers which he enjoyed wearing, and these he would immediately substitute for his solid pair of shoes.

This, and washing his face with the aid of common washing soap until it glowed a shiny red, constituted his only preparation for his evening meal.