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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: her five babies and her man and felt almost like a girl again. The music
sounded sad and sweet. Her roughened hands clasped and unclasped
themselves in the folds of her skirt. While the music went on she was
afraid to look anybody in the face, and she smiled with a little nervous
tremor round the mouth.
"But, my God," Frau Rupp cried, "they've given that child of Theresa's a
piece of sausage. It's to keep her quiet. There's going to be a
presentation now--your man has to speak."
Frau Brechenmacher sat up stiffly. The music ceased, and the dancers took
their places again at the tables.
Herr Brechenmacher alone remained standing--he held in his hands a big
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