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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: him, but it was of no use. Finally we parted, not exactly in
anger, but certainly with a shadow between us. He thought me
shallow, I thought him foolish. When I called on him again his
servant told me that he had gone to Germany.
Two years afterwards, as I was going into my club, the hall-porter
handed me a letter with a foreign postmark. It was from Erskine,
and written at the Hotel d'Angleterre, Cannes. When I had read it
I was filled with horror, though I did not quite believe that he
would be so mad as to carry his resolve into execution. The gist
of the letter was that he had tried in every way to verify the
Willie Hughes theory, and had failed, and that as Cyril Graham had
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