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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: thinking it was her mother's maid, who sometimes used to bring her
work there, looked in to ask her to mend her habit. To her immense
surprise, however, it was the Canterville Ghost himself! He was
sitting by the window, watching the ruined gold of the yellowing
trees fly through the air, and the red leaves dancing madly down
the long avenue. His head was leaning on his hand, and his whole
attitude was one of extreme depression. Indeed, so forlorn, and so
much out of repair did he look, that little Virginia, whose first
idea had been to run away and lock herself in her room, was filled
with pity, and determined to try and comfort him. So light was her
footfall, and so deep his melancholy, that he was not aware of her
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