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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: contingency.
At noon I left the office and took a veterinarian to see Candida,
the injured pony. By one o'clock my first day's duties were
performed, and a long Sahara of hot afternoon stretched ahead.
McKnight, always glad to escape from the grind, suggested a
vaudeville, and in sheer ennui I consented. I could neither ride,
drive nor golf, and my own company bored me to distraction.
"Coolest place in town these days," he declared. "Electric fans,
breezy songs, airy costumes. And there's Johnson just behind - the
coldest proposition in Washington."
He gravely bought three tickets and presented the detective with
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