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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: could make out scarcely anything in front of her. She emerged upon
a street. It seemed abnormal, the quiet, the lack of commotion, the
laughter, the unconcern in the voices of the passers-by among whom
she suddenly found herself. She hurried from the neighborhood.
XI. THE DOOR ACROSS THE HALL
It was many blocks away before calmness came again to Rhoda Gray,
and before it seemed, even, that her brain would resume its normal
functions; but with the numbed horror once gone, there came in its
place, like some surging tide, a fierce virility that would not be
denied. The money! The old couple on that doorstep, stripped of
their all! Wasn't that one reason why she had gone on with Pinkie
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