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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: took a short cut through a lot of shabby little streets. Suddenly
I saw in front of me Lady Alroy, deeply veiled and walking very
fast. On coming to the last house in the street, she went up the
steps, took out a latch-key, and let herself in. "Here is the
mystery," I said to myself; and I hurried on and examined the
house. It seemed a sort of place for letting lodgings. On the
doorstep lay her handkerchief, which she had dropped. I picked it
up and put it in my pocket. Then I began to consider what I should
do. I came to the conclusion that I had no right to spy on her,
and I drove down to the club. At six I called to see her. She was
lying on a sofa, in a tea-gown of silver tissue looped up by some
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