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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: PRAED [anxious and considerate] Shall I take him away, Miss
Warren? I feel sure we have disturbed you at your work.
VIVIE. Sit down: I'm not ready to go back to work yet. [Praed
sits]. You both think I have an attack of nerves. Not a bit of
it. But there are two subjects I want dropped, if you dont mind.
One of them [to Frank] is love's young dream in any shape or
form: the other [to Praed] is the romance and beauty of life,
especially Ostend and the gaiety of Brussels. You are welcome to
any illusions you may have left on these subjects: I have none.
If we three are to remain friends, I must be treated as a woman
of business, permanently single [to Frank] and permanently
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