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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: Elizabeth wore her ring around her neck on a white ribbon, inside
her camisole, until such time as her father would consent to announce
that he was about to lose her.
Thus Elizabeth found her engagement full of unexpected turns and
twists, and nothing precisely as she had expected. But she accepted
things as they came, being of the type around which the dramas of
life are enacted, while remaining totally undramatic herself. She
lived her quiet days, worried about Jim on occasion, hemmed table
napkins for her linen chest, and slept at night with her ring on
her finger and a sense of being wrapped in protecting love that was
no longer limited to the white Wheeler house, but now extended two
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