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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: is better than her character."
"I don't quite see what you are driving at."
"The intelligence of all intelligent women is better than
their characters. Goodness in a woman, as we understand it,
seems to imply necessarily a certain imaginative fixity. Miss
Grammont has an impulsive and adventurous character. And as I
have been saying she was a spoilt child, with no
discipline. . . . You also are a person of high intelligence
and defective controls. She is very much at loose ends. You--
on account of the illness of that rather forgotten lady, Miss
Martin Leeds--"
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