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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: forty pounds! . . .
Her mind went on generalizing. So it would always be between
herself and Manning. She saw her life before her robbed of all
generous illusions, the wrappered life unwrappered forever,
vistas of dull responses, crises of make-believe, years of
exacting mutual disregard in a misty garden of fine sentiments.
But did any woman get anything better from a man? Perhaps every
woman conceals herself from a man perforce! . . .
She thought of Capes. She could not help thinking of Capes.
Surely Capes was different. Capes looked at one and not over
one, spoke to one, treated one as a visible concrete fact. Capes
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