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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: don't know him. I only admire him at a distance."
"Oh you must know him - he wants so to talk to you," returned Miss
Fancourt, who evidently had the habit of saying the things that, by
her quick calculation, would give people pleasure. Paul saw how
she would always calculate on everything's being simple between
others.
"I shouldn't have supposed he knew anything about me," he
professed.
"He does then - everything. And if he didn't I should be able to
tell him."
"To tell him everything?" our friend smiled.
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