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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: much. He flushed a burning red. He laughed fool-
ishly. He said nothing.
"It will be very hard on me," stated Lily, "to
marry a boy who tried to murder his nice aunt."
Johnny revived a bit under this feminine disdain.
"I didn't try to murder her," he said in a weak
voice.
"You might have, throwing her down in all that
awful dust, a nice, clean lady. Ladies are not like
boys. It might kill them very quickly to be knocked
down on a dusty road."
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