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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: "Ah, it's dangerous to, in Xingu. Even at the start there are
places where one can't. One must just wade through."
"I should hardly call it WADING," said Mrs. Ballinger
sarcastically.
Mrs. Roby sent her a look of interest. "Ah--you always found it
went swimmingly?"
Mrs. Ballinger hesitated. "Of course there are difficult
passages," she conceded modestly.
"Yes; some are not at all clear--even," Mrs. Roby added, "if one
is familiar with the original."
"As I suppose you are?" Osric Dane interposed, suddenly fixing
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