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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: other, we had no doubt in our minds that we pleased each other.
From the first we were at our ease with one another. "So
picturesque, so very picturesque," came a voice from above, and
then: "Bee-atrice!"
"I've a hundred things I want to know about you," she said with
an easy intimacy, as we went up the winding steps....
As the four of us sat at tea together under the cedar on the
terrace she asked questions about my aeronautics. My aunt helped
with a word or so about my broken ribs. Lady Osprey evidently
regarded flying as a most indesirable and improper topic--a
blasphemous intrusion upon the angels. "It isn't flying," I
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