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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: She had an air of earnestness. "Do you think then he's so
perfect?"
"Far from it. Some of his later books seem to me of a queerness -
!"
"Yes, yes - he knows that."
Paul Overt stared. "That they seem to me of a queerness - !"
"Well yes, or at any rate that they're not what they should be. He
told me he didn't esteem them. He has told me such wonderful
things - he's so interesting."
There was a certain shock for Paul Overt in the knowledge that the
fine genius they were talking of had been reduced to so explicit a
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