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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: would never, for her happiness, cease to be a creature of
illusions. It enabled me to exclaim, smiling brightly and feeling
indeed idiotic: "Oh I shall see you again! But I hope you'll have
a very pleasant walk."
"All my walks are pleasant, thank you--they do me such a lot of
good." She was as quiet as a mouse, and her words seemed to me
stupendous in their wisdom. "I take several a day," she continued.
She might have been an ancient woman responding with humility at
the church door to the patronage of the parson. "The more I take
the better I feel. I'm ordered by the doctors to keep all the
while in the air and go in for plenty of exercise. It keeps up my
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