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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: come to one's home and ruin one's sister. But he was not sure how
much Pete knew about the rules of politeness.
The following night he returned home from work at rather a
late hour in the evening. In passing through the halls he came
upon the gnarled and leathery old woman who possessed the music
box. She was grinning in the dim light that drifted through dust-
stained panes. She beckoned to him with a smudged forefinger.
"Ah, Jimmie, what do yehs t'ink I got onto las' night. It was
deh funnies' t'ing I ever saw," she cried, coming close to him and
leering. She was trembling with eagerness to tell her tale. "I
was by me door las' night when yer sister and her jude feller came
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | 
