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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: He flung back sombrely, "You don't even put it conditionally
then?"
Her gaze deepened. "On what?"
He stood up and walked across the room. Then he came back and
paused before her. "On the alternative of marrying me."
The slow color--even her blushes seemed deliberate--rose to her
lower lids; her lips stirred, but the words resolved themselves
into a smile and she waited.
He took another turn, with the thwarted step of the man whose
nervous exasperation escapes through his muscles.
"And to think that in fifteen years I shall have a big practice!"
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