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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: year they were all scattered, and one of the nieces offered to
lend us her cottage if we'd relieve her of duty for two months.
It was a nuisance for me, of course, for Wrenfield is two hours
from town; but my mother, who was a slave to family observances,
had always been good to the old man, so it was natural we should
be called on--and there was the saving of rent and the good air
for Kate. So we went.
"You never knew Joseph Lenman? Well, picture to yourself an
amoeba or some primitive organism of that sort, under a Titan's
microscope. He was large, undifferentiated, inert--since I could
remember him he had done nothing but take his temperature and
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