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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: between them grew more bitter.
But things came to a head enough. It was at my home, after they had taken
their degrees and dropped out of the world's sight, that the beginning of the
end came to pass. Both were men of means, with little inclination and no
necessity for professional life. My friendship and their mutual animosity were
the two things that linked them in any way together. While they were very
often at my place, they made it a fastidious point to avoid each other on such
visits, though it was inevitable, under the circumstances, that they should
come upon each other occasionally.
On the day I have in recollection, Paul Tichlorne had been mooning all morning
in my study over a current scientific review. This left me free to my own
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