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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: with that quality of questionable proprietorship, of leashed but
straining intimacy, that seems inseparable from this sort of
affair. It is so much more palpable than matrimony. If anything
was wanted to complete my conviction it was my uncles's eyes when
presently he became aware of mine, a certain embarrassment and a
certain pride and defiance. And the next day he made an
opportunity to praise the lady's intelligence to me concisely,
lest I should miss the point of it all.
After that I heard some gossip--from a friend of the lady's. I
was much too curious to do anything but listen. I had never in
all my life imagined my uncle in an amorous attitude. It would
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