Today's Stichomancy for George Orwell

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland:

neither home nor friends, with the hope that something might be done to save her from an unhappy fate. "Do you know any games?" we asked her. She put her hands behind her, hung her head, shuffled in an embarrassed manner, and answered: "Lots of them." "Play some for me." This small girl after some delay took control of the party