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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: The next morning at daylight she was very low. The nurse called
Mrs. Sampson and as the two bent over the old woman they saw her
lips move.
"Lift me up--out of bed," she whispered.
They raised her in their arms, and with her stiff hand she
pointed to the window.
"Oh, the window--she wants to sit in the window. She used to sit
there all day," Mrs. Sampson explained. "It can do her no harm,
I suppose?"
"Nothing matters now," said the nurse.
They carried Mrs. Manstey to the window and placed her in her
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