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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: what a nice girl she was--only just engaged, and this need
never have happened--it seems too tragic." She looked at Arthur
as though he might be able to help her with something more suitable.
"Hard lines," said Arthur briefly. "But it was a foolish thing
to do--to go up that river." He shook his head. "They should have
known better. You can't expect Englishwomen to stand roughing
it as the natives do who've been acclimatised. I'd half a mind
to warn them at tea that day when it was being discussed. But it's
no good saying these sort of things--it only puts people's backs up--
it never makes any difference."
Old Mrs. Paley, hitherto contented with her soup, here intimated,
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