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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: drive a man distracted.
"Why? What have they been doing now?" asked
Captain Whalley with a sort of amused absent-minded-
ness.
"Doing! Doing nothing. That's just it. Lawn-
tennis and silly novels from morning to night. . . ."
If one of them at least had been a boy. But all three!
And, as ill-luck would have it, there did not seem to be
any decent young fellows left in the world. When he
looked around in the club he saw only a lot of conceited
popinjays too selfish to think of making a good woman
End of the Tether | 
