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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: The waggoner cleared the road and the car started up again.
For a minute or so neither spoke.
"You ought to be smacked hard for that outbreak,--my dear,"
said Miss Grammont.
"I ought--MY dear. I have no right to be ill-tempered. We two
are among the supremely fortunate ones of our time. We have
no excuse for misbehaviour. Got nothing to grumble at. Always
I am lucky. THAT--with the waggon--was a very near thing. God
spoils us.
"We two," he went on, after a pause, "are among the most
fortunate people alive. We are both rich and easily rich.
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