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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: the fire was apparently not to become a public blaze. I scanned
the periodicals in vain: Drayton Deane filled them with exuberant
pages, but he withheld the page I most feverishly sought. He wrote
on a thousand subjects, but never on the subject of Vereker. His
special line was to tell truths that other people either "funked,"
as he said, or overlooked, but he never told the only truth that
seemed to me in these days to signify. I met the couple in those
literary circles referred to in the papers: I have sufficiently
intimated that it was only in such circles we were all constructed
to revolve. Gwendolen was more than ever committed to them by the
publication of her third novel, and I myself definitely classed by
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