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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: she added.
'Really?' said Gideon.
'Really and really!' replied the girl.
'I do then, and I will,' cried the young man. 'I admit the moment
is not well chosen; but I have no friends--to speak of.'
'No more have I,' said Julia. 'But don't you think it's perhaps
time you gave me back my hands?'
'La ci darem la mano,' said the barrister, 'the merest moment
more! I have so few friends,' he added.
'I thought it was considered such a bad account of a young man to
have no friends,' observed Julia.
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