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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: days John Lambert would return, and then the storm must break.
He was probably a stern, jealous man, whose very dulness, once
aroused, would be more formidable than if he had possessed
keener perceptions.
Still her thoughts did not dwell on Philip. He was simply a
part of that dull mass of pain that beset her and made her
feel, as she had felt when drowning, that her heart had left
her breast and nothing but will remained. She felt now, as
then, the capacity to act with more than her accustomed
resolution, though all that was within her seemed boiling up
into her brain. As for Philip, all seemed a mere negation;
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