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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: She would probably live to be eighty, and as she was now fifty,
that left thirty years more for her to live. She turned her hands
over and over in her lap and looked at them curiously; her old hands,
that had done so much work for her. There did not seem to be much
point in it all; one went on, of course one went on. . . . She
looked up to see Mrs. Thornbury standing beside her, with lines drawn
upon her forehead, and her lips parted as if she were about to ask
a question.
Miss Allan anticipated her.
"Yes," she said. "She died this morning, very early, about three o'clock."
Mrs. Thornbury made a little exclamation, drew her lips together,
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