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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: almost sure that, if she dared, her ladyship's lover would have
gathered relief from "speaking" to her. She literally fancied once
or twice that, projected as he was toward his doom, her own eyes
struck him, while the air roared in his ears, as the one pitying
pair in the crowd. But how could he speak to her while she sat
sandwiched there between the counter-clerk and the sounder?
She had long ago, in her comings and goings made acquaintance with
Park Chambers and reflected as she looked up at their luxurious
front that they of course would supply the ideal setting for the
ideal speech. There was not an object in London that, before the
season was over, was more stamped upon her brain. She went
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