Today's Stichomancy for Alfred Hitchcock

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather:

again, but he could think of nothing except his physical weakness and his desire to be com- forted by his wife. He wanted to get into his own bed. Had his wife been at home, he would have turned and gone back to her meekly enough. VIII

O Pioneers!