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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: Scarlett thought, "What am I supposed to do--give three cheers?"
for Charles' expression showed that he was baring his heart's
secrets to her. She could think of nothing to say and so merely
looked at him, wondering why men were such fools as to think women
interested in such matters. He took her expression to mean
stunned approbation and went on rapidly, daringly--
"If I went--would--would you be sorry, Miss O'Hara?"
"I should cry into my pillow every night," said Scarlett, meaning
to be flippant, but he took the statement at face value and went
red with pleasure. Her hand was concealed in the folds of her
dress and he cautiously wormed his hand to it and squeezed it,
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