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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: always felt that she looked as though Allegre had caught her in the
precincts of some temple . . . in the mountains."
I was delighted. I had never heard before a woman spoken about in
that way, a real live woman that is, not a woman in a book. For
this was no poetry and yet it seemed to put her in the category of
visions. And I would have lost myself in it if Mr. Blunt had not,
most unexpectedly, addressed himself to me.
"I told you that man was as fine as a needle."
And then to Mills: "Out of a temple? We know what that means."
His dark eyes flashed: "And must it be really in the mountains?"
he added.
The Arrow of Gold | 
