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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: "You CAN'T? WHY can't you?"
"You see, he--well, he--he made me promise I wouldn't."
The wife looked him over, and said, very slowly:
"Made--you--promise? Edward, what do you tell me that for?"
"Mary, do you think I would lie?"
She was troubled and silent for a moment, then she laid her hand
within his and said:
"No . . . no. We have wandered far enough from our bearings--God
spare us that! In all your life you have never uttered a lie. But
now--now that the foundations of things seem to be crumbling from
under us, we--we--" She lost her voice for a moment, then said,
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg | 
