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She
troubled
herself
over
what
else
to
put
in
the
letter
.
She
wanted
to
make
some
reference
to
their
relations
upon
the
train
,
but
was
too
timid
.
She
concluded
by
thanking
him
for
his
kindness
in
a
crude
way
,
then
puzzled
over
the
formality
of
signing
her
name
,
and
finally
decided
upon
the
severe
,
winding
up
with
a
“
Very
truly
,
”
which
she
subsequently
changed
to
“
Sincerely
.
”
She
scaled
and
addressed
the
letter
,
and
going
in
the
front
room
,
the
alcove
of
which
contained
her
bed
,
drew
the
one
small
rocking
-
chair
up
to
the
open
window
,
and
sat
looking
out
upon
the
night
and
streets
in
silent
wonder
.
Finally
,
wearied
by
her
own
reflections
,
she
began
to
grow
dull
in
her
chair
,
and
feeling
the
need
of
sleep
,
arranged
her
clothing
for
the
night
and
went
to
bed
.
When
she
awoke
at
eight
the
next
morning
,
Hanson
had
gone
.
Her
sister
was
busy
in
the
dining
-
room
,
which
was
also
the
sitting
-
room
,
sewing
.
She
worked
,
after
dressing
,
to
arrange
a
little
breakfast
for
herself
,
and
then
advised
with
Minnie
as
to
which
way
to
look
.
The
latter
had
changed
considerably
since
Carrie
had
seen
her
.
She
was
now
a
thin
,
though
rugged
,
woman
of
twenty
-
seven
,
with
ideas
of
life
coloured
by
her
husband
’
s
,
and
fast
hardening
into
narrower
conceptions
of
pleasure
and
duty
than
had
ever
been
hers
in
a
thoroughly
circumscribed
youth
.
She
had
invited
Carrie
,
not
because
she
longed
for
her
presence
,
but
because
the
latter
was
dissatisfied
at
home
,
and
could
probably
get
work
and
pay
her
board
here
.
She
was
pleased
to
see
her
in
a
way
but
reflected
her
husband
’
s
point
of
view
in
the
matter
of
work
.
Anything
was
good
enough
so
long
as
it
paid
—
say
,
five
dollars
a
week
to
begin
with
.
A
shop
girl
was
the
destiny
prefigured
for
the
newcomer
.
She
would
get
in
one
of
the
great
shops
and
do
well
enough
until
—
well
,
until
something
happened
.
Neither
of
them
knew
exactly
what
.
They
did
not
figure
on
promotion
.
They
did
not
exactly
count
on
marriage
.
Things
would
go
on
,
though
,
in
a
dim
kind
of
way
until
the
better
thing
would
eventuate
,
and
Carrie
would
be
rewarded
for
coming
and
toiling
in
the
city
.
It
was
under
such
auspicious
circumstances
that
she
started
out
this
morning
to
look
for
work
.
Before
following
her
in
her
round
of
seeking
,
let
us
look
at
the
sphere
in
which
her
future
was
to
lie
.
In
1889
Chicago
had
the
peculiar
qualifications
of
growth
which
made
such
adventuresome
pilgrimages
even
on
the
part
of
young
girls
plausible
.
Its
many
and
growing
commercial
opportunities
gave
it
widespread
fame
,
which
made
of
it
a
giant
magnet
,
drawing
to
itself
,
from
all
quarters
,
the
hopeful
and
the
hopeless
—
those
who
had
their
fortune
yet
to
make
and
those
whose
fortunes
and
affairs
had
reached
a
disastrous
climax
elsewhere
.
It
was
a
city
of
over
500
,
000
,
with
the
ambition
,
the
daring
,
the
activity
of
a
metropolis
of
a
million
.
Its
streets
and
houses
were
already
scattered
over
an
area
of
seventy
-
five
square
miles
.
Its
population
was
not
so
much
thriving
upon
established
commerce
as
upon
the
industries
which
prepared
for
the
arrival
of
others
.
The
sound
of
the
hammer
engaged
upon
the
erection
of
new
structures
was
everywhere
heard
.
Great
industries
were
moving
in
.
The
huge
railroad
corporations
which
had
long
before
recognised
the
prospects
of
the
place
had
seized
upon
vast
tracts
of
land
for
transfer
and
shipping
purposes
.
Street
-
car
lines
had
been
extended
far
out
into
the
open
country
in
anticipation
of
rapid
growth
.
The
city
had
laid
miles
and
miles
of
streets
and
sewers
through
regions
where
,
perhaps
,
one
solitary
house
stood
out
alone
—
a
pioneer
of
the
populous
ways
to
be
.
There
were
regions
open
to
the
sweeping
winds
and
rain
,
which
were
yet
lighted
throughout
the
night
with
long
,
blinking
lines
of
gas
-
lamps
,
fluttering
in
the
wind
.
Narrow
board
walks
extended
out
,
passing
here
a
house
,
and
there
a
store
,
at
far
intervals
,
eventually
ending
on
the
open
prairie
.
In
the
central
portion
was
the
vast
wholesale
and
shopping
district
,
to
which
the
uninformed
seeker
for
work
usually
drifted
.
It
was
a
characteristic
of
Chicago
then
,
and
one
not
generally
shared
by
other
cities
,
that
individual
firms
of
any
pretension
occupied
individual
buildings
.
The
presence
of
ample
ground
made
this
possible
.
It
gave
an
imposing
appearance
to
most
of
the
wholesale
houses
,
whose
offices
were
upon
the
ground
floor
and
in
plain
view
of
the
street
.
The
large
plates
of
window
glass
,
now
so
common
,
were
then
rapidly
coming
into
use
,
and
gave
to
the
ground
floor
offices
a
distinguished
and
prosperous
look
.
The
casual
wanderer
could
see
as
he
passed
a
polished
array
of
office
fixtures
,
much
frosted
glass
,
clerks
hard
at
work
,
and
genteel
businessmen
in
“
nobby
”
suits
and
clean
linen
lounging
about
or
sitting
in
groups
.
Polished
brass
or
nickel
signs
at
the
square
stone
entrances
announced
the
firm
and
the
nature
of
the
business
in
rather
neat
and
reserved
terms
.
The
entire
metropolitan
centre
possessed
a
high
and
mighty
air
calculated
to
overawe
and
abash
the
common
applicant
,
and
to
make
the
gulf
between
poverty
and
success
seem
both
wide
and
deep
.
Into
this
important
commercial
region
the
timid
Carrie
went
.
She
walked
east
along
Van
Buren
Street
through
a
region
of
lessening
importance
,
until
it
deteriorated
into
a
mass
of
shanties
and
coal
-
yards
,
and
finally
verged
upon
the
river
.
She
walked
bravely
forward
,
led
by
an
honest
desire
to
find
employment
and
delayed
at
every
step
by
the
interest
of
the
unfolding
scene
,
and
a
sense
of
helplessness
amid
so
much
evidence
of
power
and
force
which
she
did
not
understand
These
vast
buildings
,
what
were
they
?
These
strange
energies
and
huge
interests
,
for
what
purposes
were
they
there
?
She
could
have
understood
the
meaning
of
a
little
stone
-
cutter
’
s
yard
at
Columbia
City
,
carving
little
pieces
of
marble
for
individual
use
,
but
when
the
yards
of
some
huge
stone
corporation
came
into
view
,
filled
with
spur
tracks
and
flat
cars
,
transpierced
by
docks
from
the
river
and
traversed
overhead
by
immense
trundling
cranes
of
wood
and
steel
,
it
lost
all
significance
in
her
little
world
.
It
was
so
with
the
vast
railroad
yards
,
with
the
crowded
array
of
vessels
she
saw
at
the
river
,
and
the
huge
factories
over
the
way
,
lining
the
water
’
s
edge
.
Through
the
open
windows
she
could
see
the
figures
of
men
and
women
in
working
aprons
,
moving
busily
about
.
The
great
streets
were
wall
-
lined
mysteries
to
her
;
the
vast
offices
,
strange
mazes
which
concerned
far
-
off
individuals
of
importance
.
She
could
only
think
of
people
connected
with
them
as
counting
money
,
dressing
magnificently
,
and
riding
in
carriages
.
What
they
dealt
in
,
how
they
laboured
,
to
what
end
it
all
came
,
she
had
only
the
vaguest
conception
.
It
was
all
wonderful
,
all
vast
,
all
far
removed
,
and
she
sank
in
spirit
inwardly
and
fluttered
feebly
at
the
heart
as
she
thought
of
entering
any
one
of
these
mighty
concerns
and
asking
for
something
to
do
—
something
that
she
could
do
—
anything
.
