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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: as you long have wished to do, Ischomachus?
To which he: By no means, Socrates. I should not think of going away
until the gathering in the market is dispersed.[1]
[1] Lit. "until the market is quite broken up," i.e. after mid-day.
See "Anab." I. viii. 1; II. i. 7; "Mem." I. i. 10. Cf. Herod. ii.
173; iii. 104; vii. 223.
Of course, of course (I answered), you are naturally most careful not
to forfeit the title they have given you of "honest gentleman";[2] and
yet, I daresay, fifty things at home are asking your attention at this
moment; only you undertook to meet your foreign friends, and rather
than play them false you go on waiting.
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