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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: last words struck him as so preposterous that he could not
repress a smile.
"I cannot flatter myself," said he, "that the lady would welcome
this solution."
The Count's manner became increasingly ceremonious. "Such
modesty," he said, "becomes your youth and inexperience; but even
if it were justified it would scarcely alter the case, as it is
always assumed in this country that a young lady wishes to marry
the man whom her father has selected."
"But I understood just now," Tony interposed, "that the gentleman
yonder was in that enviable position."
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