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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: suspicion.
"Blake," he said, "if I didn't know you for what you are, I'd say
you were interested there yourself."
Being so near her, under the same roof, with even the tie of a
dubious secret between us, was making me heady. I pushed Forbes
toward the door.
"I interested!" I retorted, holding him by the shoulders. "There
isn't a word in your vocabulary to fit my condition. I am an
island in a sunlit sea of emotion, Sam, a - an empty place surrounded
by longing - a - "
"An empty place surrounded by longing!" he retorted. "You want your
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