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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: I wondered if I should dare draw her attention to her cup. She didn't
notice it--didn't see it--until suddenly, quite by chance, she took a sip.
I watched anxiously; she faintly shuddered.
"Dreadfully sweet!" said she.
A tiny boy with a head like a raisin and a chocolate body came round with a
tray of pastries--row upon row of little freaks, little inspirations,
little melting dreams. He offered them to her. "Oh, I'm not at all
hungry. Take them away."
He offered them to Hennie. Hennie gave me a swift look--it must have been
satisfactory--for he took a chocolate cream, a coffee eclair, a meringue
stuffed with chestnut and a tiny horn filled with fresh strawberries. She
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