And now Carrie had attained that which in the beginning seemed life's object, or, at least, such fraction of it as human beings ever attain of their original desires … Applause there was and publicity 一 once far off, essential things, but now grown trivial and indifferent. Beauty also 一 her type of loveliness 一 and yet she was lonely. In her rocking-chair she sat, when not otherwise engaged — singing and dreaming.