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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: proportions, missed even his jeers that stung her to angry retort.
Most of all she missed having him to tell things to. Rhett was so
satisfactory in that respect. She could recount shamelessly and
with pride how she had skinned people out of their eyeteeth and he
would applaud. And if she even mentioned such things to other
people they were shocked.
She was lonely without him and Bonnie. She missed the child more
than she had thought possible. Remembering the last harsh words
Rhett had hurled at her about Wade and Ella, she tried to fill in
some of her empty hours with them. But it was no use. Rhett's
words and the children's reactions opened her eyes to a startling,
Gone With the Wind | 
