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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: "He has always seemed to me a young man of remarkable discretion.
Indeed, he is only too discreet; he seems on his guard against me--
as if he thought me rather light company. The other day he told his sister--
Gertrude repeated it to me--that I was always laughing at him. If I laugh
it is simply from the impulse to try and inspire him with confidence.
That is the only way I have."
"Clifford's situation is no laughing matter," said Mr. Wentworth.
"It is very peculiar, as I suppose you have guessed."
"Ah, you mean his love affair with his cousin?"
Mr. Wentworth stared, blushing a little. "I mean his absence from college.
He has been suspended. We have decided not to speak of it unless
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