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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: despised. . . . There can be no inequality in love. Give and take
must balance. One must be one's natural self or the whole business
is an indecent trick, a vile use of life! To use inferiors in love
one must needs talk down to them, interpret oneself in their
insufficient phrases, pretend, sentimentalize. And it is clear that
unless oneself is to be lost, one must be content to leave alone all
those people that one can reach only by sentimentalizing. But
Amanda--and yet somehow I love her for it still--could not leave any
one alone. So she was always feverishly weaving nets of false
relationship. Until her very self was forgotten. So she will go on
until the end. With Easton it had been necessary for her to key
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