“Aunt Nicey said that, after so much talk, if we produced anything less tremendous than the Resurrection, she was going to be disappointed.” “It was too late to turn back, for we had both wandered too far into a net of expectations and had left no crumbs behind.”
The story is "The Scarlett Ibis"
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Delegates: representatives who cast votes at a political party's national convention. binding: if a primary or caucus is “binding” that means the delegates won in that contest are legally bound to vote for a particular candidate at the parties national convention.a primary is a preliminary election used to determine a party's nominee for a specific office. the winner of the party's caucus, or primary, wins the party nomination for that state. then the delegates meet at their party's national party convention, which is a formal gathering of all party delegates from all states.