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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: every point, she had a meretricious daring; and it occurred to
Madeline, looking at her, that she was after all a fairly competent
second-class adventuress. She would not refuse the cue. It would
make so little difference.
'On the contrary, I am tremendously indebted to Colonel Innes. He
has been so very kind about ponies and jhampanies and things. Simla
is full of pitfalls for a stranger, don't you think?' And Miss
Anderson, unclosing her fan, turned her reposeful head a little in
the direction of three married schoolgirls voluble on her left.
'Not when you get to know the language. You must learn the
language; it's indispensable. But of course it depends on how long
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