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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: there for the answer.
Never, I wrote. And then despair came over me, and I may have
indeed appeared insane. The old woman came in. I entreated and
implored her to tell me why this dreadful fate should have overtaken
me. She remained quite indifferent and I sank back, almost fainting,
on the bed. She laid a moist cloth over my face, a cloth that had
a peculiar odour. I soon fell asleep. It seemed to me that there
was some one else besides the woman in the room with me. Or was
she talking to herself? Next morning the letter and my answer had
disappeared. "It was as I thought; there was some one else in my
room. Some one who had come on the tramway. I found the ticket on
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