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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: and was stirred despite herself to a feeling of gratitude towards
Wilding for the patience and toleration he had displayed.
There for a while the matter rested, and the days passed slowly. But
Sir Rowland's nature - mean at bottom - was spurred to find him some
other way of wiping out the score that lay `twixt him and Mr. Wilding,
a score mightily increased by the shame that Mr. Wilding had put upon
him in that encounter from which - whatever the issue - he had looked
to cull great credit in Ruth's eyes.
He had been thinking constantly of the incautious words that Richard
had let fall, thinking of them in conjunction with the startling rumours
that were now the talk of the whole countryside. He laid two and two
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