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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: and laid her hand on his arm he knew almost as soon that she
mightn't resent it as much as she'd have liked.
CHAPTER VII.
HE learned in that instant two things: one being that even in so
long a time she had gathered no knowledge of his great intimacy and
his great quarrel; the other that in spite of this ignorance,
strangely enough, she supplied on the spot a reason for his stupor.
"How extraordinary," he presently exclaimed, "that we should never
have known!"
She gave a wan smile which seemed to Stransom stranger even than
the fact itself. "I never, never spoke of him."
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