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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Annie laughed. "I don't wonder you ask," she
said, "and the worst of it is I can't half answer you.
I wonder how much, or rather how little explanation
will content you?"
Tom Reed gazed at her with the eyes of a man
who might love a woman and have infinite patience
with her, relegating his lack of understanding of
her woman's nature to the background, as a thing
of no consequence.
"Mighty little will do for me," he said, "mighty
little, Annie dear, if you will only tell a fellow you
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