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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: never seen beyond the opposite houses.
Wyant was not sorry to find her alone. Seeing that she was
surprised at his reappearance he said at once: "I have come back
to study Miss Lombard's picture."
"Oh, the picture--" Mrs. Lombard's face expressed a gentle
disappointment, which might have been boredom in a person of
acuter sensibilities. "It's an original Leonardo, you know," she
said mechanically.
"And Miss Lombard is very proud of it, I suppose? She seems to
have inherited her father's love for art."
Mrs. Lombard counted her stitches, and he went on: "It's unusual
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