The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris:
Then Blix began to explain. It appeared that she had two aunts,
both sisters of her father--one a widow, the other unmarried. The
widow, a certain Mrs. Kihm, lived in New York, and was wealthy,
and had views on "women's sphere of usefulness." The other, Miss
Bessemer, a little old maid of fifty, Condy had on rare occasions
seen at the flat, where every one called her Aunt Dodd. She lived
in that vague region of the city known as the Mission, where she
owned a little property.
From what Blix told him that evening, Condy learned that Mrs. Kihm
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