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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: Black, soothingly. "I am sure we can settle it. I am sorry that
I can't stay and talk about it any longer, but this is such a
busy time of day, with supper to get--"
Her hand was on the door-knob, but with sudden vigor Mrs. Manstey
seized her wrist.
"You are not giving me a definite answer. Do you mean to say
that you accept my proposition?"
"Why, I'll think it over, Mrs. Manstey, certainly I will. I
wouldn't annoy you for the world--"
"But the work is to begin to-morrow, I am told," Mrs. Manstey
persisted.
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