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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: greeting]. Has your mother arrived?
VIVIE [quickly, evidently scenting aggression] Is she coming?
PRAED [surprised] Didn't you expect us?
VIVIE. No.
PRAED. Now, goodness me, I hope Ive not mistaken the day. That
would be just like me, you know. Your mother arranged that she
was to come down from London and that I was to come over from
Horsham to be introduced to you.
VIVIE [not at all pleased] Did she? Hm! My mother has rather a
trick of taking me by surprise--to see how I behave myself while
she's away, I suppose. I fancy I shall take my mother very much
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