That was a move he made himself." "But he wouldn't have made that move if the manufacturers hadn't made theirs," Ellen said, unexpectedly.
"That's so," said Fanny.
Andrew looked uneasily at Ellen, in whose cheeks two red spots were burning, and whose eyes upon his face seemed narrowed to two points of brightness.

"There's nothing for you to worry about, child," he said.
All this was before the dressmaker, who listened with no particular interest.

Affairs which did not directly concern her did not awaken her to much sharpness of regard.

She had been forced by circumstances into a very narrow groove of life, a little foot-path as it were, fenced in from destruction by three dollars a day.

She could not, view it as keenly as she might, see that Jim Tenny's elopement had anything whatever to do with her three dollars per day.