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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: might be late. Indeed, they had been quite distressed at hearing
of Virginia's disappearance, as they were very grateful to Mr. Otis
for having allowed them to camp in his park, and four of their
number had stayed behind to help in the search. The carp-pond had
been dragged, and the whole Chase thoroughly gone over, but without
any result. It was evident that, for that night at any rate,
Virginia was lost to them; and it was in a state of the deepest
depression that Mr Otis and the boys walked up to the house, the
groom following behind with the two horses and the pony. In the
hall they found a group of frightened servants, and lying on a sofa
in the library was poor Mrs. Otis, almost out of her mind with
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