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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: never looked better, happier. I met her again for the first time at
one of the Thursday dances at Government House. In the glance she
gave me I was glad to detect no suspicion of collusion. She plainly
could not dream that Edward Harris in his nefarious exercise of
parental authority had acted upon any hint from me. It was rather
sweet.
Out in the veranda, away from the blare of the Viceroy's band, she
told me very delicately and with the most charming ellipses how
Armour had been filling her life in Agra, how it had all been, for
these two, a dream and a vision. There is a place below the bridge
there, where the cattle come down from the waste pastures across the
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