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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: and I've nobody to send. Here is the latchkey.'
Gideon put on his hat with alacrity, and casting one look at Miss
Hazeltine, and another at the legs of Hercules, threw open the
door and departed on his errand.
He returned with a large bag of the choicest and most tempting of
cakes and tartlets, and found Julia in the act of spreading a
small tea-table in the lobby.
"The rooms are all in such a state,' she cried, 'that I thought
we should be more cosy and comfortable in our own lobby, and
under our own vine and statuary.'
'Ever so much better,' cried Gideon delightedly.
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