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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: know I seemed to take and that you'd like to have me, but I really, really
can't."
"You know what I mean," he said, with a touch of his old bulldozing manner.
"No, I really won't," she persisted. "Vaudeville's too--too wearing on the
nerves, my nerves, at any rate."
Whereat he looked puzzled and doubtful, and forbore to press the point
further.
But on Monday morning, when she came to his office to get her pay for the two
turns, it was he who puzzled her.
"You surely must have mistaken me," he lied glibly. "I remember saying
something about paying your car fare. We always do this, you know, but we
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