Which sentence from the text propels the action in the passage?
(5) Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a
grey cat walking a grey fence in a grey backyard. Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy
Jim a present. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far.
Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. They always are. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a
happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling-something just a little bit
near to being worthy of the honour of being owned by Jim.
(6) There was a pier-glass between the windows of the room. Perhaps you have seen a pier-glass in an $8 flat. A very thin and
very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of
his looks. Della, being slender, had mastered the art.
(7) Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glass. Her eyes were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its
colour within twenty seconds. Rapidly she pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full length.
(8) Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim's
gold watch that had been his father's and his grandfather's. The other was Della's hair. Had the Queen of Sheba lived in the flat
across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty's jewels
and gifts. Had King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his
watch every time he passed, just to see him pluck at his beard from envy.
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