The following lines are from "The Gift of the Magi." In what part of the plot do they belong, and how do you know?
Della wriggled off the table and went to him.
"Jim, darling," she cried, "don't look at me that way. I had my hair cut off and sold it because I couldn't have
lived through Christmas without giving you a present. It'll grow out again-you won't mind, will you? I just had
to do it. My hair grows awfully fast. Merry Christmas! Jim, and let's be happy. You don't know what a nice-
what a beautiful, nice gift I've got for you."
"You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not yet arrived at that patent fact yet even
after the hardest mental labor.
Exposition; it introduces the characters and conflict of the story