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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: If it had been any one but Rich!
Some things were mine, however, and I would hold them: the halcyon
breakfast, the queer hat, the pebble in her small shoe, the gold
bag with the broken chain - the bag! Why, it was in my pocket at
that moment.
I got up painfully and found my coat. Yes, there was the purse,
bulging with an opulent suggestion of wealth inside. I went back
to bed again, somewhat dizzy, between effort and the touch of the
trinket, so lately hers. I held it up by its broken chain and
gloated over it. By careful attention to orders, I ought to be out
in a day or so. Then - I could return it to her. I really ought
The Man in Lower Ten |
