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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: elfin quality in her that always pleased me, that always took me
by surprise, that had made her for example so instantly conceive
this meeting.
She came within a minute of midnight; the door opened softly and
she appeared, a short, grey figure in a motor-coat of sheepskin,
bareheaded to the cold drizzle. She flitted up to me, and her
eyes were shadows in her dusky face.
"Why are you going to West Africa?" she asked at once.
"Business crisis. I have to go."
"You're not going--? You're coming back?"
"Three or four months," I said, "at most."
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