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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: as the morning advanced. They had walked by the road to
Marlow and had lunched at a riverside inn, returning after a
restful hour in an arbour on the lawn of this place to tea at
Maidenhead. It was as they returned that Sir Richmond took up
the thread of their overnight conversation again.
"In the night," he said, "I was thinking over the account I
tried to give you of my motives. A lot of it was terribly out
of drawing."
"Facts?" asked the doctor.
"No, the facts were all right. It was the atmosphere, the
proportions. . . . I don't know if I gave you the effect of
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