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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: incomprehensible mirth over May's telegram announcing
that the date of their marriage had been advanced.
"Why did she write this?" he asked, checking his
laugh with a supreme effort.
May met the question with her unshaken candour. "I
suppose because we talked things over yesterday--"
"What things?"
"I told her I was afraid I hadn't been fair to her--
hadn't always understood how hard it must have been
for her here, alone among so many people who were
relations and yet strangers; who felt the right to criticise,
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