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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: repeatedly countermanding a wedding-cake, struck me as belonging
admirably to a stage-comedy in three acts, but scarcely to life as we
find it. Besides, poor John Mayrant was, all too plainly, not
strategizing; he was playing as straight a game as the honest heart of a
gentleman could inspire. And so, baffled at all points, I said (for I
simply had to try something which might lead to my sharing in Kings
Port's vibrating secret):--
"I can't make out whether she wants to marry him or not."
Mrs. Gregory answered. "That is just what she is coming to see for
herself."
"But since her love was for his phosphates only--!" was my natural
exclamation.
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