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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: surprise must have been more evident than I supposed or intended,
for before I went away she told me the whole story. By that time
she had heard from Ceylon, a delicious letter with a pen-and-ink
sketch at the top. I have it still; it infallibly brought the man
back to me. But it was all over; she assured me with shining eyes
that it was. The reason of her plainly boundless thankfulness that
Armour had run away from the School of Art did not come to the
surface until I was just going. Then I gathered that if he had
taken the post she would have felt compelled, compelled by all she
had done for him, to share its honours with him; and this, ever
since at her bidding he had begun to gather such things up, was
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