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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: already in as much as his foot was in his shoe; and she also
repeated her prayer that, somewhere and somehow, he would find her
sixty francs. He took the liberty of hinting that if he could find
them it wouldn't be to lend them to HER - as to which he
consciously did himself injustice, knowing that if he had them he
would certainly put them at her disposal. He accused himself, at
bottom and not unveraciously, of a fantastic, a demoralised
sympathy with her. If misery made strange bedfellows it also made
strange sympathies. It was moreover a part of the abasement of
living with such people that one had to make vulgar retorts, quite
out of one's own tradition of good manners. "Morgan, Morgan, to
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