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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: the choice of these circumstances as a proof of extreme cynicism?
Singular though it may seem, Winterbourne was vexed that the young girl,
in joining her amoroso, should not appear more impatient
of his own company, and he was vexed because of his inclination.
It was impossible to regard her as a perfectly well-conducted
young lady; she was wanting in a certain indispensable delicacy.
It would therefore simplify matters greatly to be able to treat
her as the object of one of those sentiments which are called by
romancers "lawless passions." That she should seem to wish to get rid
of him would help him to think more lightly of her, and to be able
to think more lightly of her would make her much less perplexing.
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