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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: asked her if she'd rather I...didn't get married. "No, Ellen," she said--
that was her voice, madam, like I'm giving you--"No, Ellen, not for the
wide world!" But while she said it, madam--I was looking in her glass; of
course, she didn't know I could see her--she put her little hand on her
heart just like her dear mother used to, and lifted her eyes...Oh, madam!
When Harry came I had his letters all ready, and the ring and a ducky
little brooch he'd given me--a silver bird it was, with a chain in its
beak, and on the end of the chain a heart with a dagger. Quite the thing!
I opened the door to him. I never gave him time for a word. "There you
are," I said. "Take them all back," I said, "it's all over. I'm not going
to marry you," I said, "I can't leave my lady." White! he turned as white
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