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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: Ann Veronica hesitated with a question that had leaped up in her
mind, and that she felt was cruel. "Are you sorry you waited,
aunt?" she said.
Her aunt was a long time before she answered. "His stipend
forbade it," she said, and seemed to fall into a train of
thought. "It would have been rash and unwise," she said at the
end of a meditation. "What he had was altogether insufficient."
Ann Veronica looked at the mildly pensive gray eyes and the
comfortable, rather refined face with a penetrating curiosity.
Presently her aunt sighed deeply and looked at the clock. "Time
for my Patience," she said. She got up, put the neat cuffs she
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