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Question
What was the knife that Miss Meadows carried with her?
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Solution
Miss. Meadows had received a letter from Mr. Basil calling off the marriage. She deemed it a kind of personal failure. Her anger and disappointment became despair. She carried cold despair buried deep in her heart like a wicked knife.
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