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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: meanwhile, by the spirit that made her discard the petty luxuries
which she regarded as the signs of their bondage. Their shared
renunciations drew her nearer to him, helped, in their evidence of
her helplessness, to restore the full protecting stature of his
love. And still they did not speak.
It was several weeks later that, one afternoon by the drawing-room
fire, she handed him a letter that she had been reading when he
entered.
"I've heard from Mr. Flamel," she said.
Glennard turned pale. It was as though a latent presence had
suddenly become visible to both. He took the letter mechanically.
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