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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: wise to him, as this one did. "I hope you have not gathered from
anything I have said--"
"Not at all; you have displayed the utmost tact. But I think I
had better go. Jansenius can bear death and misery with perfect
fortitude when it is on a large scale and hidden in a back slum.
But when it breaks into his own house, and attacks his
property--his daughter was his property until very recently-- he
is just the man to lose his head and quarrel with me for keeping
mine."
The doctor was unable to cope with this speech, which conveyed
vaguely monstrous ideas to him. Seeing Trefusis about to leave,
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