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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: the delicate subject of his remuneration. But it had been only to
say some things about her son that it was better a boy of eleven
shouldn't catch. They were extravagantly to his advantage save
when she lowered her voice to sigh, tapping her left side
familiarly, "And all overclouded by THIS, you know; all at the
mercy of a weakness - !" Pemberton gathered that the weakness was
in the region of the heart. He had known the poor child was not
robust: this was the basis on which he had been invited to treat,
through an English lady, an Oxford acquaintance, then at Nice, who
happened to know both his needs and those of the amiable American
family looking out for something really superior in the way of a
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