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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: followed her husband as he moved off with Miss Fancourt. Overt
permitted himself to wonder a little if she were jealous when
another woman took him away. Then he made out that Mrs. St. George
wasn't glaring at the indifferent maiden. Her eyes rested but on
her husband, and with unmistakeable serenity. That was the way she
wanted him to be - she liked his conventional uniform. Overt
longed to hear more about the book she had induced him to destroy.
CHAPTER II
As they all came out from luncheon General Fancourt took hold of
him with an "I say, I want you to know my girl!" as if the idea had
just occurred to him and he hadn't spoken of it before. With the
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