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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: "For what purpose?"
"I don't know that I mean for a purpose," said Miss Vivian;
"but for a necessity."
"Ah, what an odious necessity!"
"Necessities usually are odious. But women meet them.
Men evade them and shirk them."
"I contest your proposition. Women are themselves necessities;
but they are not odious ones!" And Bernard added, in a moment,
"One could n't evade them, if they were!"
"I object to being called a necessity," said Angela Vivian.
"It diminishes one's merit."
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