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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: darkness.
"No," said a woman's voice in a whisper. "It's the maid, Hattie.
Be careful. There's a guard at the top of the stairs."
He heard her moving to his outer door, and he knew that she stood
there, listening, her head against the panel. When she was
satisfied she slipped, with the swiftness of familiarity with her
surroundings, to the stand beside his bed, and turned on the lamp.
In the shaded light he saw that she wore a dark cape, with its
hood drawn over her head. In some strange fashion the maid, even
the woman, was lost, and she stood, strange, mysterious, and
dramatic in the little room.
The Breaking Point |
