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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: that at a given moment you could say an intelligent child didn't
know. It seemed to him that he himself knew too much to imagine
Morgan's simplicity and too little to disembroil his tangle.
The boy paid no heed to his last remark; he only went on: "I'd
have spoken to them about their idea, as I call it, long ago, if I
hadn't been sure what they'd say."
"And what would they say?"
"Just what they said about what poor Zenobie told me - that it was
a horrid dreadful story, that they had paid her every penny they
owed her."
"Well, perhaps they had," said Pemberton.
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