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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: counter, there were more impressions to be gathered and really--for
it came to that--more life to be led. Definite at any rate it was
that by the time May was well started the kind of company she kept
at Cocker's had begun to strike her as a reason--a reason she might
almost put forward for a policy of procrastination. It sounded
silly, of course, as yet, to plead such a motive, especially as the
fascination of the place was after all a sort of torment. But she
liked her torment; it was a torment she should miss at Chalk Farm.
She was ingenious and uncandid, therefore, about leaving the
breadth of London a little longer between herself and that
austerity. If she hadn't quite the courage in short to say to Mr.
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