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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: would surely come back to him. Give her a chance
and she would rise to the surface, return to the light.
How could she fail to perceive that his house would be much
the most comfortable sort of convent?
Newman, as he had done before, left his conveyance at the inn
and walked the short remaining distance to the chateau.
When he reached the gate, however, a singular feeling took
possession of him--a feeling which, strange as it may seem,
had its source in its unfathomable good nature. He stood there
a while, looking through the bars at the large, time-stained face
of the edifice, and wondering to what crime it was that the dark
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