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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: V.V., his own girl, entertaining a lover, being possibly--
most shameful thought--IN LOVE! Like some ordinary silly
female, sinking to kisses, to the deeds one could buy and pay
for. His V.V.! The idea infuriated and disgusted him. He
fought against it as a possibility. Once some woman in New
York had ventured to hint something to him of some fellow,
some affair with an artist, Caston; she had linked this
Caston with V.V.'s red cross nursing in Europe. . . . Old
Grammont had made that woman sorry she spoke. Afterwards he
had caused enquiries to be made about this Caston, careful
enquiries. It seems that he and V.V. had known each other,
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