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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: into it,' she retorted. 'I don't know whether you think it's
adequately filled with gold lace and truffles.'
'Why should I defend it?' I asked, not knowing indeed why. 'But it
has perhaps a dignity, you know. Ah, you are too fresh from your
baptism,' I continued, as she shook her head and went to the piano.
The quality, whatever it was, that the last fortnight had generated
in her, leaped from her fingers; she played with triumph, elation,
intention. The notes seemed an outlet for the sense of beauty and
for power to make it. I had never heard her play like that before.
It occurred to me to ask when she had done, how far, after a
fortnight, she could throw light on Armour's aims and history, where
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