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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: method of an essentially simple nature. The thing had become
intolerable; therefore it must end.
On the afternoon following his talk with Belle he came home at three
o'clock. Belle heard him moving about in, his room, and when she entered
it, after he had gone, she found that he had shaved and put on his best
suit.
She smiled a little. It was like Harvey to be literal. He had said he
was going to go round and have a good time, and he was losing no time.
But in their restricted social life, where most of the men worked until
five o'clock or even later, there were fewer afternoon calls paid.
Belle wondered with mild sisterly curiosity into what arena Harvey was
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