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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: started for Norway with Alan Colville. After a month I came back,
and the first thing I saw in the MORNING POST was the death of Lady
Alroy. She had caught a chill at the Opera, and had died in five
days of congestion of the lungs. I shut myself up and saw no one.
I had loved her so much, I had loved her so madly. Good God! how I
had loved that woman!'
'You went to the street, to the house in it?' I said.
'Yes,' he answered.
'One day I went to Cumnor Street. I could not help it; I was
tortured with doubt. I knocked at the door, and a respectable-
looking woman opened it to me. I asked her if she had any rooms to
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