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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "Only yesterday you were the suspicious one," he retorted, and we
lapsed into strained silence.
It was late when we got to Washington. One of Mrs. Klopton's small
tyrannies was exacting punctuality at meals, and, like several other
things, I respected it. There are always some concessions that
should be made in return for faithful service.
So, as my dinner hour of seven was long past, McKnight and I went
to a little restaurant down town where they have a very decent way
of fixing chicken a la King. Hotchkiss had departed, economically
bent, for a small hotel where he lived on the American plan.
"I want to think some things over," he said in response to my
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