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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: "I tell you I have! I am certain!" said Powell forcibly. "I was
looking at you all the time. You've done something to the drink in
that glass."
Then Powell lost his breath somehow. Mr. Smith looked at him
curiously, with mistrust.
"My good young man, I don't know what you are talking about. I ask
you--have you seen? Who would have believed it? with her arms round
his neck. When! Oh! Ha! Ha! You did see! Didn't you? It
wasn't a delusion--was it? Her arms round . . . But I have never
wholly trusted her."
"Then I flew out at him, said Mr. Powell. I told him he was jolly
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