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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: never a soul abroad it seemed to us, never a beast in the fields.
"Why do people love each other?" I said.
"Why not?"
"But why do I love you? Why is your voice better than any voice,
your face sweeter than any face?"
"And why do I love you?" she asked; "not only what is fine in
you, but what isn't? Why do I love your dullness, your
arrogance? For I do. To--night I love the very raindrops on the
fur of your coat!"...
So we talked; and at last very wet, still glowing but a little
tired, we parted at the garden door. We had been wandering for
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