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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: ever I had been in my life before. The house was beautiful in
its own fashion; the food was excellent; there was everything I
could want to drink, and Rodd announced that he no longer feared
the necessity of operation upon Anscombe's leg. His recovery was
now a mere matter of time, and meanwhile he must not use his foot
or let the blood run into it more than could be helped, which
meant that he must keep himself in a recumbent position. The
trouble was that I had nothing on earth do except study the
characters of our hosts, which I found disagreeable and
depressing. I might have gone out shooting, but nothing of the
sort was allowed upon the property in obedience to the wish of
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