Dexter thinks the economic success will offer him security.
Explanation:
- He wonders if she is aware of his engagement to Irene, and he is confused by her sudden desire to marry him. Judy insists that he could never love anyone in the way that he loved her and expresses a wish to repeat their past, though Dexter is skeptical.
- Judy asks that he drive her home, then she begins to cry, wondering why her beauty has not brought her happiness.
- She makes a final appeal to Dexter for marriage, which inspires a wave of feelings in him. He settles on accepting her as “his own, his beautiful, his pride.” He decides to take Judy back.
The correct way would be: While she was sleeping, the alarm kept ringing in Jamie's ear.
<u><em>While</em></u> contains the element of duration and it is better to use a progressive form.
<u><em>Sleeping</em></u><em> </em>is a verb that has duration, so it should not be conjugated in the past simple if there is a simultaneous action.
The fascinators had the commands of working, playing and sleeping for eight hours a day printed under each of them. The idea was to systematize their lives and deprived them from the priviledge of thinking. There was a third of the day which had to be dedicated to the most basic activities in life.
