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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: would never have another chance to be known as a respectable
woman, and compared to most women of his acquaintance, she WAS a
respectable woman. True, according to old- fashioned standards,
she had been indiscreet, but apparently the present day woman had
a standard of her own. Alfred found his eye wandering round the
table surveying the wives of his friends. Was there one of them,
he wondered, who had never fibbed to her husband, or eaten a
simple luncheon unchaperoned by him? Of one thing he was certain,
there was not one of them so attractive as Zoie. Might she not
be forgiven, to some extent, if her physical charms had made her
a source of dangerous temptation to unprincipled scoundrels like
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