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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: his eyes when he first saw her. He hurried up, greeted her, and bowed with a
respect ludicrously at variance with his previous ogre-like behavior. And as
he bowed, across his shoulders she saw Charley Welsh deliberately wink.
But the surprise had just begun. The manager begged to be introduced to her
sister, chatted entertainingly with the pair of them, and strove greatly and
anxiously to be agreeable. He even went so far as to give Edna a dressing room
to herself, to the unspeakable envy of the three other amateur ladies of
previous acquaintance. Edna was nonplussed, and it was not till she met
Charley Welsh in the passage that light was thrown on the mystery.
"Hello!" he greeted her. "On Easy Street, eh? Everything slidin' your way."
She smiled brightly.
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