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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: "Your guesses, doctor, are apt to be pretty good," said Sir
Richmond.
"You know that?"
"She has told me as much."
"H'm. Well--She impressed me as having the air of a girl who
has had to solve many problems for which the normal mother
provides ready made solutions. That is how I inferred that
there was no mother. I don't think there has been any
stepmother, either friendly or hostile? There hasn't been. I
thought not. She has had various governesses and companions,
ladies of birth and education, engaged to look after her and
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