Read continuously, they produced a sort of vertigo, and set her asking herself in despair what on earth she was to do with them?
Her mother refused, also, to face the radical questions of what to leave in and what to leave out.

She could not decide how far the public was to be told the truth about the poet's separation from his wife.

She drafted passages to suit either case, and then liked each so well that she could not decide upon the rejection of either.
But the book must be written.

It was a duty that they owed the world, and to Katharine, at least, it meant more than that, for if they could not between them get this one book accomplished they had no right to their privileged position.

Their increment became yearly more and more unearned.