The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: "Oh I don't care! Much good it does me!"
Mrs. Jordan after an instant recovered her superiority. "No--it
doesn't lead to much." Her own initiations so clearly did. Still-
-after all; and she was not jealous: "There must be a charm."
"In seeing them?" At this the girl suddenly let herself go. "I
hate them. There's that charm!"
Mrs. Jordan gaped again. "The REAL 'smarts'?"
"Is that what you call Mrs. Bubb? Yes--it comes to me; I've had
Mrs. Bubb. I don't think she has been in herself, but there are
things her maid has brought. Well, my dear!"--and the young person
from Cocker's, recalling these things and summing them up, seemed
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