The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: need anything."
Mrs. Klopton sailed to the door, where she stopped and wheeled
indignantly. "I only hope you won't laugh on the wrong side of
your face some morning, Mr. Lawrence," she declared, with
Christian fortitude. "But I warn you, I am going to have the
police watch that house next door."
I was half inclined to tell her that both it and we were under
police surveillance at that moment. But I like Mrs. Klopton, in
spite of the fact that I make her life a torment for her, so I
refrained.
"Last night, when the paper said it was going to storm, I sent
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