The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: mode of delivery! Here was the answer!
"Maybe I'd like it better than being Gypsy Nan!" she flung back
significantly.
He laughed out sharply.
"I'd like to trade with you," he said, a quick note of genuine envy
in his voice. "You can pitch away your clothes; I can't pitch away
a crooked spine. And, anyway, after to-night, you'll be living
swell again.
She leaned toward him, staring at him in the semi-darkness. That
premonitory vista was widening; his words seemed suddenly to set her
brain in tumult. After to-night! She was to resume, after to-night,
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