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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: that had ceased to work. "What makes you ask such a question,
Vee?" she said.
"I wondered."
Her aunt answered in a low voice: "I was engaged to him, dear,
for seven years, and then he died."
Ann Veronica made a sympathetic little murmur.
"He was in holy orders, and we were to have been married when he
got a living. He was a Wiltshire Edmondshaw, a very old family."
She sat very still.
Ann Veronica hesitated with a question that had leaped up in her
mind, and that she felt was cruel. "Are you sorry you waited,
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