Minnie tried to talk with her during breakfast, but there was not much of interest which they could mutually discuss.

As on the previous morning, Carrie walked down town, for she began to realise now that her four-fifty would not even allow her car fare after she paid her board.

This seemed a miserable arrangement.

But the morning light swept away the first misgivings of the day, as morning light is ever wont to do.
At the shoe factory she put in a long day, scarcely so wearisome as the preceding, but considerably less novel.

The head foreman, on his round, stopped by her machine.
"Where did you come from ?" he inquired.
"Mr.Brown hired me," she replied.
"Oh, he did, eh!" and then, "See that you keep things going." The machine girls impressed her even less favourably.