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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: instinct for catching first any eye that promised the sort of
entertainment with which she had her peculiar affinity. The
amusements of captives are full of a desperate contrivance, and one
of our young friend's ha'pennyworths had been the charming tale of
"Picciola." It was of course the law of the place that they were
never to take no notice, as Mr. Buckton said, whom they served; but
this also never prevented, certainly on the same gentleman's own
part, what he was fond of describing as the underhand game. Both
her companions, for that matter, made no secret of the number of
favourites they had among the ladies; sweet familiarities in spite
of which she had repeatedly caught each of them in stupidities and
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