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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: his German friend, and he's been figuring it out, and he's afraid
to chance it. He'll have to go alone."
"But there's your money--have you forgotten that? The hundred
dollars in the bank."
Evelina made an impatient movement. "Of course I ain't
forgotten it. On'y it ain't enough. It would all have to go into
buying furniture, and if he was took sick and lost his place again
we wouldn't have a cent left. He says he's got to lay by another
hundred dollars before he'll be willing to take me out there."
For a while Ann Eliza pondered this surprising statement; then
she ventured: "Seems to me he might have thought of it before."
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