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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: "I miss you every minute," said her aunt, decisively. "But I
shall do very well. I have delightful times here by myself.
What a ridiculous man it was who said that it was impossible to
imagine a woman's laughing at her own comic fancies. I sit and
laugh at my own nonsense very often."
"It is a shame to waste it," said Kate.
"It is a blessing that any of it is disposed of while you are
not here," said Aunt Jane. "You have quite enough of it."
"We never have enough," said Kate. "And we never can make you
repeat any of yesterday's."
"Of course not," said Aunt Jane. "Nonsense must have the dew
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