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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: him in?"
"She doesn't know either, Madam, for he wrote his name on a
folded paper."
Mary, through her agitation, was aware that they were both
designating the unknown visitor by a vague pronoun, instead of
the conventional formula which, till then, had kept their
allusions within the bounds of custom. And at the same moment
her mind caught at the suggestion of the folded paper.
"But he must have a name! Where is the paper?"
She moved to the desk, and began to turn over the scattered
documents that littered it. The first that caught her eye was an
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