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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: around the world there would be great difficulties. She would
object very strongly, and if that did not do then she would become
extremely abusive, compare him to his father, cry bitterly, and
banish him suddenly and heartbrokenly from her presence for ever.
She had done that twice already--once about going to the opera
instead of listening to a lecture on Indian ethnology and once about
a week-end in Kent. . . . He hated hurting his mother, and he was
beginning to know now how easily she was hurt. It is an abominable
thing to hurt one's mother--whether one has a justification or
whether one hasn't.
Recoiling from this, he was at once resumed by Mrs. Skelmersdale.
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