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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: woman's mouth were mere facons de parler, and on the whole signs
that she had no objection to be alone, and did not intend to call
for help; and he only grasped her hands the more fiercely, and
looked into her face with keen and hungry eyes; but she was in
earnest, nevertheless, and a loud shriek made him aware that, if he
wished to save his own good name, he must go: but there was one
question, for an answer to which he would risk his very life.
"Yes, proud woman! I thought so! Some one of those gay gallants
has been beforehand with me. Tell me who--"
But she broke from him, and passed him, and fled down the lane.
"Mark it!" cried he, after her. "You shall rue the day when you
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