The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: are killing me instead."
"Not danger," her father said, slowly. "So far as we know, he is
well. Is all right." And seeing her face: "It is nothing that
affects his feeling for you, dear. He is thinking of you and loving
you, wherever he is. Only, we don't know where he is."
But when he came back on Tuesday, after seeing Harrison Miller, he
was discouraged and sick at heart. He went directly upstairs to
his wife, and shut the bedroom door.
"Not a trace," he said, in reply to the question in her eyes. "The
situation is as he outlined it in the letter. He elaborated, of
course. The fact is, and David will have to see it, that that
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