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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: to a nicety the agonies which Margaret suffered.
He knew, because of his own capacity for sufferings
of like stress. "And she is a woman and a lady,"
he said, aloud.
If Sydney had been rich enough, the matter would
have been simple. He could have paid Jack and
Camille enough to quiet them, and Margaret could
have lived with him and his sister and their two old
servants. But he was not rich; he was even poor.
The price to be paid for Margaret's liberty was a
bitter one, but it was that or nothing. Sydney faced
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