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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: of mosquitoes we've been having this year. Most
of them have stripes on their legs, you know, but
these have black legs this year. But maybe you
haven't noticed -- -- "
He stopped in midcareer. The preposterous idea
that she could be interested in examining the legs
of mosquitoes had too evidently outraged Her-
mione's mother. Fothergil, flushed and embar-
rassed, tried to make it better and made it worse.
"Maybe you haven't noticed their -- er -- limbs,"
said Fothergil.
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