The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: will be to take you quite away."
"Well, don't you understand that that's exactly what I'm working for?
You'll have to tell him--about the way you've let it all drop:
you'll have to tell him a tremendous lot!"
The exultation with which he uttered this helped
me somehow, for the instant, to meet him rather more.
"And how much will YOU, Miles, have to tell him?
There are things he'll ask you!"
He turned it over. "Very likely. But what things?"
"The things you've never told me. To make up his mind what to do with you.
He can't send you back--"
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