The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: brother's met with an accident. We found him in the road. Don't
make a noise. This is my sister, Mrs. Pleydell."
"How d'you do?" said Daphne. "My brother seems- "
"I'm all right," I said suddenly. "I'd lost my way, see? And
one of the tires went, just as I was passing a big white house on
the left. I stopped under a balcony, I think."
"That's right," said Bill Bairling. "Balcony of Silvia's room."
"I never knew it was St. Martin, though. I must have cut across
country somehow. Still. Well, there was no jack on the car so I
couldn't do anything. Just as I was getting in again, I heard a
noise above me and turned. My foot slipped on the step, and I
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