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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: irritation against Gillow. "I suppose he thinks he owns us!" he
grumbled inwardly.
He had thrown himself into an armchair, and Susy, advancing
across the shining arabesques of the floor, slid down at his
feet, pressed her slender length against him, and whispered with
lifted face and lips close to his: "We needn't ever go anywhere
you don't want to." For once her submission was sweet, and
folding her close he whispered back through his kiss: "Not
there, then."
In her response to his embrace he felt the acquiescence of her
whole happy self in whatever future he decided on, if only it
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