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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: knew not how."
"Ah! then that was it?" exclaimed Muller, and his eyes softened
as he looked at the sobbing woman who had sunk back into her chair.
He laid his hand on her cold fingers and continued gently: "Then
you have really done right, you have done only what was your duty.
I pity you deeply that you - "
"That I have brought suspicion upon my master by my own foolishness?"
she finished the sentence with a pitifully sad smile. "If I could
have controlled myself, could have kept calm, nobody would have had
a thought or a suspicion that he - my pet, my darling - that it was
he who was forced, through some terrible circumstance of which I do
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