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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: herself and what lay before her. There was no course
open but submission. She knew that from the first.
All three faced destitution; she was the one financial
asset, she and her poor flesh. She had to face it,
and with what dignity she could muster.
Margaret had great piety. She kept constantly
before her mental vision the fact in which she be-
lieved, that the world which she found so hard, and
which put her to unspeakable torture, was not all.
A week elapsed before the wretched little show
of which she was to be a member went on the road,
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