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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: pause, springing up and gathering her skirt as if to run away.
"You do not suppose I was in earnest, do you?"
"Undoubtedly I do. _I_ am in earnest."
Agatha hesitated, uncertain whether he might not be playing with
her as she had just been playing with him. "Take care," she said.
"I may change my mind and be in earnest, too; and then how will
you feel, Mr. Trefusis?"
"I think, under our altered relations, you had better call me
Sidney."
"I think we had better drop the joke. It was in rather bad taste,
and I should not have made it, perhaps."
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