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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: little," in a word, was just as much as Mss Bartram, taking one day
with another, would let him. He never would be in the least
coercive, and would keep well before him the lines on which
consideration for her--the very highest--ought to proceed. He
would thoroughly establish the heads under which her affairs, her
requirements, her peculiarities--he went so far as to give them the
latitude of that name--would come into their intercourse. All this
naturally was a sign of how much he took the intercourse itself for
granted. There was nothing more to be done about that. It simply
existed; had sprung into being with her first penetrating question
to him in the autumn light there at Weatherend. The real form it
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